Title: Cymatics
Installation with sound and liquid which interactively change by vibration of sound
Author: Suguru Goto
Outline
The main materials used in this installation are a speaker and liquid. The vibration of the sound by the speaker is transmitted to liquid, and it expresses as wave motion. The liquid consists of water, Ferrofluid (which is a liquid magnet and is developed with the latest technology by NASA), sticky liquid (which contains water and the cornstarch), and powder (although it is neither Ferrofluid nor a liquid). The sound is generated by a computer, and the liquid makes a pattern by the speaker that vibrates. The spectator, who visits the installation, creates this pattern depending on the choices of buttons or the movement of spectator’s bodies with the sensor. In another word, this can be said the interactive sound installation. The emitted sound is not only to be listened, but also it is perceived to man’s body as a vibration by subsonic frequency. It is also shown physically as a natural phenomenon in the liquid. Therefore, it is a type of a new installation that one can actually experience visual and aural phenomena, and extrasensory that exceeds beyond our knowledge.
Introduction
The anomalous phenomenon and the global warming of natural environment are frequently talked recently. This becomes discussion on the international politics, and it reaches the restriction of carbon-dioxide emissions etc. in advanced industrialized countries. Moreover, it starts entering to our daily life as the energy saving electric device and the gas-electric hybrid car of the appliance level in the world of commerce. A lot of artists directly take part in this approach now. However, it seems that some of artists have already worked this in a different way since long time ago, because their sensitively reacts to this problem more than frequently general, before mass media often starts talking about this journalistically.
In Japan where the author was born, ancient aesthetics and philosophy that try to harmonize with nature exist, and these have been succeeding to the present time. On the other hand, as modern industrialization and the technology are more advanced in the contemporary society, one talks that we should furthermore think about the above-mentioned ecology problem. However, this recent ecology problem has a little different nuance from western societies because of traditional above-mentioned thought. Nature and the technology are not colliding, but co-exist at the same time very naturally even at the present age, and the mutual interaction is easily accepted in Japan.
Suguru Goto is composer and new media artist. He has been creating his works conjunctions with new technologies and music for more than 20 years. His works involve compositions, performances, and installations. The matter between Japanese culture and new technology is not an exceptional case for Goto, as well. He also relates with the subculture of Japan behind the concept of his high art works.
This project concerns with Kinetic Sculpture and Interactive Sound Installation. This consists of liquid such as water and the vibration of the sound. This work arises a question about what the casualty between visual and aural sense is.
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