Soundform No.1 is a minimalistic soundscape and kinetic art installation that transforms heat energy into a poetically evolving, spatiotemporal composition.
Sound is created thermoacoustically by activating heating elements inside quartz glass tubes. As the glass warms, a nickel-titanium spring reacts, pulling the cylinder upright. At the correct angle, airflow becomes unrestricted, and a thermoacoustic phenomenon, known as a Rijke effect (named for the professor who discovered the phenomenon in 1859), creates an audible tone. The tone is a product of the glass tube’s length and diameter, combined with the rapid change of temperature in the air column.
Through a modulation of heat, light and motion, Soundform No.1 creates an ever-changing atmosphere of Zen-like tonal patterns and visual effects.
Soundform No. 1 ist eine Installation, die auf mehreren wissenschaftlichen Phänomenen basiert, die zur Schaffung einer Klanglandschaft verwendet werden. Es ist eine Erinnerung daran, dass es auch ohne der heute verfügbaren elektronischen Komponenten immer noch möglich ist, in der Musik innovativ zu sein.
Project Credits:
- This project is created by the artist collective Natura Machina,
- and is supported by University of Tokyo, JST ERATO Project, UC Berkeley CITRIS Invention Lab, UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, and by Transmission Arts LLC.
Biographies:
Yasuaki Kakehi (JP) is a media artist and HCI researcher. Associate professor at the University of Tokyo. He has created interactive works that augment our experiences in the physical environment with combination of digital technologies and physical materials.
http://xlab.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Mikhail Mansion (US) is a machinic artist and founder of Transmission Arts, a company focused on new media art installations. He uses algorithm and mechanism to explore expressive systems, both natural and artificial. He designs custom software and builds handcrafted, electro-mechanical systems to uncover the hidden poetry of forces, ephemera, and sensations embedded in the world around us.
http://mikhailmansion.art
Kuan-Ju Wu (US) is interested in creating delightful interactions between humans, machines, and environments. He builds kinetic construction kits and tangible interfaces that borrow facets from the shapes and movements of nature, from stories about future machines, and the perceptual memories from our early childhood, those intuitive, rich and satisfying experiences. Kuan-Ju Wu received his Master’s in tangible interaction design from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and his bachelor’s in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. He currently serves as the lab manager at CITRIS Invention Lab and instructor at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley.
https://wukuanju.com
