spontaneous performance by random visitor, who was given a plastic bottle with a piezo microphone. the random visitor was later identified as dj raveboy.
background music is coil’s “sea priestess” (from album “astral disaster”, 1999)
ciant gallery, prague 15 / 05 / 2008
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de-centralised diy muti-channel soundsystem, sonic playground and a social participatory audioinstallation.
Project ADD SOUNDSYSTEM is a sound installation conceived as an open system and tool for other artists to realise their own sound content. ADD SOUNDSYSTEM can become a space for some form of music production or performance, it can be used as a sound installation or a sonic playground for a workshop. The aim is to create a specific social context, space for encounters, communication and participation. ADD SOUNDSYSTEM oscillates between different types of sound production and perception. It decentralises the position of musician / performer and obliterates both creative and physical gap between the creator and the audience. Installation is designed to be as transparent, easily understood and operated for any audience member.
ADD SOUNDSYSTEM consists of two basic connected components: mixing table and loudspeaker grid.
The mixing table is a combinatoric matrix constructed from simple electronic elements. It contains five input units and a larger number of output units. Each output unit is a very simple mixer which allows to produce a variable mix of the five inputs fed into the system. Sound producers and audience take their places and operate input and output units according to the current situation (music production, performance, workshop, installation). The most typical would be a situation where the output units are handled by the audience and inputs are taken by the creator/s.
The loudspeaker grid contains number of single loudspeakers which is double the number of output units - as the speakers are in stereo pairs. Each output unit is connected to a pair of speakers. Speakers are suspended under the gallery ceiling and spaced out into an even grid creating a sound field. This situation allows the audience to actively shape the sound field created in the gallery. The perception of the sound composition then depends on the listener's position in space which means that each listener's experience is individual and unique.
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exhibited:
version 1.0, AVU Gallery, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, 2006
version 2.0, CIANT Gallery, Prague, 2008
version 2.1, 5th International DADA Festival, D.I.V.O. Institute, Kolin, Czech Republic, 2008
version 2.2, Nonstop Workshop, Letovice castle, Czech Republic
version 2.3, XIII Biennale Internazionale di Carrara: Lo Spazio & Gli Altri, Ex Caserma Dogali, Carrara, Italy
version 3.0, Subvision, Hamburg, Germany
