"Generally my idea is to make an installation, a sound 'machine'
that will incorporate real sound from percussion instruments or
pre-programmed sounds created by these instruments and by
using technologies; like internet, sound gadgets ~ contact mike,
microphone or possibly touch screen web-based program, or sound
device...to bring sound & music composed from percussion/ music
instruments that are used around the world to create a central
access for cultural exchange, using sound as the base medium" ...
tagline #1 : " the city is like portals of organized information" ~ Branzi Andrea 1972
tagline #2 : "in an electronic future already here, in which things no longer have a material presence" ~ Mestaoui Naziha & Ait Kaci, Yacine 2003
~ TRANSFORMANCE PERFORMANCE : A "MECHANISM" FOR SOUND MANIPULATION ~
Winter Term 2008
CYBERNETICS
A HEATING FUNNEL EXPERIMENT
Creating a “Smoke Funnel /Chimney” consists of:-
plastics bottle, glass cylinder, thermometer, glass bowl, candles, candle pedestal,water
My Observation is to find out whether :~
My Observation is to find out whether :~
Do traps close faster in under Humid condition, by form of heating gradually to
a higher temperature, than under Natural day sunlight ?
Yes. I have found one reference claiming that in bright sunlight they closed in as little as 1/30 second while generating heat has an effect on increasing their speed of closure. After about 1 hour and 20mins of transmitting heat within the “Funnel” under a temperature specified as HI Degree Celsius, reflected on the thermometer screen, which see no results that the flytrap will respond, and not knowing how will the traps response if at this point I disturb it, I decided to trigger its hairs and the trap closed really quickly when activated, in an usual 1/16 second. One reference claimed that the driving mechanism is fluid pressure and triggering the trigger hairs releases the pressure driving the trap closed and at 95-degrees they snap shut very fast. Under my experiment with heat in this case, the flytrap speed of closure is at 1/16 second. What I also found was temperature plays a big part in trap closure speeds. However, the plants are not 100-percent consistent on this. One trap on a plant will snap shut fast while another will close more slowly. And they definitely need to take some time to stimulate that change of speed if they are experiencing a change of environmental temperature. Also observed is that the traps are convex when open and concave immediately after being triggered. I’ll be interested to look at prolonging the time of closure in my experiment. While the total closure time is 1/16 second, time will be stretched to capture the slow prolonged moment of this process. Environmental sounds recorded during this observation will also be presented in a form of a graph chart
relative to the prolonged time of happenings.
DIGITAL WEAVE
WEAVE EXPLORATIONS
1ST & 2ND PROTOTYPE /MOCK-UP
LINE WORKS ON 3RD PROTOTYPE /MOCK-UP
A POTENTIAL INTERACTIVE MACHIINE
'FINAL' EXPLORATION PROTOTYPE in progress ...
