Australian Artists Rene Christen and Jasper Streit to present Interactive Installation “Listening Glass” at Squeaky Wheel.
When: April 14 (opening reception) through May 19th. Opening Reception: Tonight, April 14th, 7:00 – 9:00 PM. Cost: $5/$4 members
On Friday, April 14th, Australian electronic artists Rene Christen and Jasper Streit will be presenting Listening Glass, an interactive audiovisual media installation that feeds off the sounds from the outside environment. Listening Glass is a digital life form that feeds on the sound waves and kinetics of the collective public. As people pass the work it engages in ‘conversation’, responding to the noises passersby emit.
The work pulsates with the collective pulse of the public. Like a DNA donation to the evolution of the entity, affecting the work in such a way that it becomes unique through the interminable interaction specific to its location.
The absorption of the sound is much like the process of osmosis, where the soundscape of the work reflects fragments of the ‘physical world’. The fragmentation of the incoming sound is important to the aesthetics of the soundscape, where the physical world sound is “frozen”, re-arranged, stretched and pitched; the original altered, yet still discernible.
The sonic intensity of the public also feeds the ‘pixel cells’ growing on the digital plane building up to a critical mass appearing as visual white noise. It consists of all frequencies at once, the saturation that is the opposite of emptiness.
If you have any questions, please email us at: office@squeaky.org / 716-884-7173