REEDS : a responsive sound installation

Garth Paine

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[This paper discusses the responsive sound installation Reeds. The Melbourne International Festival of the Arts commissioned the Reeds project in 2000, for exhibition on the Ornamental Lake at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. It consists of twenty-one large floating sculptures, modeled to represent clusters of river reeds in immaculate man-made plantings. Each reed pod contained a collection of electronics for either the gathering of weather information or the reception and dispersion of sound. The sound installation gathered data from two realtime weather stations, and produced eight channels of musical output by interpreting the machine unit pulses of the weather data as pulse inputs to Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) algorithms. The Reeds project focused on a consideration of multiple streams of chaotic and constantly varying sound. I was interested in exploring whether the sonic environment would remain homogenous even though, unlike a musical ensemble, the control inputs varied randomly and independently of each other. The sound installation was site specific, reflecting directly upon the environment it inhabited, both in terms of its visual quality, and aesthetic of the sound.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of ICAD 04 - Tenth Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Sydney, Australia, July 6-9, 2004
    PublisherCSIRO
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Print)1741080487
    Publication statusPublished - 2004
    EventICAD 04. International Conference -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2004 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceICAD 04. International Conference
    Period1/01/04 → …

    Keywords

    • sound installations (art)
    • exhibitions
    • Reeds (2000)
    • Melbourne International Festival of the Arts

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