silence organ
June 30th, 1995
Nexus Gallery in Philadelphia commissioned the Silence Organ for Innovative Instruments, a show of artists’ instruments presented in conjunction with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Citycircus, a celebration of John Cage.
To exploit rooms full of interesting instruments making interesting noises, I wired the gallery with 13 microphones, each set in a resonating tube tuned to a note of the diatonic scale. The viewer would put on headphones and play a tune on an antique keyboard, in which each note was made of filtered sound from elsewhere in the gallery.
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1. cTrix | September 24th, 2007 at 8:06 am
This is such a simple but brilliant idea! Wish I could have experienced it. Must have taken a bit of effort to setup and get sounding even… (compressors / limiters?) So digging it.
2. em | June 11th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Ive been looking at the work on this website and think its brilliant. im interested in pianos and old sheet music, especailly those pianos that could play automatically. I agree with the comment above, I wouldve liked to of expericned this for myself. great work.
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