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a site specific installation within the exhibition Another Movement Location - Ti's Hall Tatemachi, Kanazawa, Japan 8th - 17th October 2004 link to Installation notebook Non-Intentionality Double system installations Location information (Japanese only) Another Movement information  (Japanese only - link currently
inactive)
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In this space are two microphones and four loudspeakers.
Otherwise the space is empty. The sound of the space is
magnified, amplified in real time.
This work responds acoustically not only to the proportions and
dimensions of the space but also to the physical presence of its
audience, integrating the object of the work with its subject.
This self referentiality is central to the installation - sound isn't
used to illustrate an idea, it is the idea in itself. The work
isolates and makes audible the movement of air within a given space,
something invisible and so quiet we are normally oblivious to it.
The English writer Andrew Wilson has written: "There is no metaphorical dimension, Cunningham's work is a presentation of fact. He relies on isolating sonic or other sensory elements from the conditions of their sources and through subtle framing makes us aware of that which would otherwise be disregarded. This hum that surrounds our lives, by being isolated, is also magnified and the dynamism and effect of everyday actions made clear". (1)
This space contains two systems of microphone, noise gate,
amplifier and speakers.
As with The Listening Room and other installations documented on
this website, each system is arranged in such a way that when the
microphone and loudspeaker begin to feed back the amplitude of the
sound causes the noise gate to cut off the signal. The feedback notes
resonate through the space accentuated by the reverberation time of
the space. As the sound falls below the threshold of the noise
gate the system switches back on and the process continues.
The double system consists of two systems, electronically separate
within the same acoustic space. The electronic part of the chain
is independent but the acoustic part of the chain is interdependent -
the two systems hear and react to each other in ways that are not
entirely predictable. The system will assimilate and adapt to any
sound made in the space, including sound which leaks in from elsewhere
in the building.
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documentary audio fragment of a moment within the
installation, recorded on 11 October 2004 click on the speaker image |
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| (1) Andrew Wilson, Days Like
These, Tate Britain 2003 |
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