Metaphors for Dead Pianos
Date:
2008-10-01 - 2010-04-02 A current art project supported by the FONCA and Jack Straw Productions is the development of a sound installation with four acoustic pianos dissemble and activated with actuators such as solenoids and dc motors. Some of the instruments are loosing their original forms, meanings, and sonic connotations but part some elements remain as traces and reincarnations.
Swarms
Date:
2007-10-01 - 2010-03-10
“Swarm Intelligence describes the high-level behavior produced by the interaction of several decentralized non-hierarchical non-complex units of low-level intelligence with short-term local interaction". The traditional examples for describing swarm systems are insect colonies, flocks, and fish schools which overall behavior is more sophisticated than each of the members isolated.
Plurifocal Events Controller
Date:
2008-10-02 - 2009-09-01 With the aim of having a framework for composition and interaction of sonic experiences spread over huge areas such as parks, field games, sea, deserts, and open spaces this work-on-progress helps controlling, scheduling, and organizing distributed events. The framework consist of a custom piece of hardware and also a plug-ing for the Juum software.
Exhalation-water
Date:
2009-06-24 Exhalation-Water is a sonic journey along the University of Washington campus. Participants are following at ground level the chilling pipes that connect the air conditioning system of the buildings in the campus under the floor. In this way, participants are metaphorically following their own heat. Participants carry a portable device that allows the transformation on real time of the sonic environment. The devices records and transform the live input signal and plays prerecorded sounds from the surrounding location.Along the walks, participants discover several black boxes where they are invited to exhale their breath. In return the box responds with a word that they have to select on the portable device. These boxes are constantly analyzing the sonic environment and set the "sonic situation" of the sound manipulation.
The experience finishes when participants arrive to the cooling cascade where the hot water is cool thru air. Here the participants recover the heat that they exhaled along the journey.
Juum Software
Date:
2009-04-14 - 2009-06-01 Juum is a piece of software that I am designing according to my own art requirements. It is not been developed as a generic solution to be used by others but as a personal framework for developing my work. The different modules have been included for specific art projects and an interesting feedback is emerging by breaking the bridge between the tool and the work piece. My artistic production is being influenced by my code, and my code is the result of my art creation. The exploration of this feedback paradigm is central to understand my future work.
