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=== cascada - sound installation // [[User:R dh|Ruben Dhers]] === | === cascada - sound installation // [[User:R dh|Ruben Dhers]] === | ||
[[File:Ruben Dhers cascada 1.jpg|thumb|500px|Cascada - 2011<br />Mixed media: prepared steel-string acoustic guitars, fabric, motors, speakers and computer.<br />Dimensions variables.<br />ZKM Institut für Musik und Akustik. Karlsruhe 2011<br />]] | |||
Cascada is a sound installation for prepared guitars and fans that musically interprets the sound of a waterfall and seeks to approach the vital irregularities that characterise natural events. In so doing, Cascada resizes the sound potential of an acoustic instrument and creates a sound architecture that only exists in the music of the installation. | |||
[[File:Ruben Dhers cascada 1.jpg | |||
fabric, motors, speakers and computer.<br /> | |||
Dimensions variables.<br /> | |||
ZKM Institut für Musik und Akustik. Karlsruhe 2011<br />]] | |||
The installation works with the amplified natural sound of the guitars without any kind of audio processing. Computer controlled hanging and placed fans (dc motors) strum the strings with variable intensity. The space is filled with a mass of harmonics and chords that suggest no beginning or end. Cascada drives the listener to a contemplative state. | |||
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File:Ruben Dhers cascada 2.jpg|Cascada | |||
File:Ruben Dhers cascada 3.jpg|© ZKM Institut für Musik und Akustik | |||
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===Sketches=== | |||
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===[[Pure Data]] + [[Arduino]]=== | |||
The Pd patch controls the speed of each fan separately. This works randomly, but partly limited in order to generate polyrhythmic patterns and dynamics. Slow changes happen approximately every five minutes. | |||
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File:Ruben Dhers cascada 4.jpg|Arduino | |||
File:Ruben Dhers cascada 5.jpg|Pure Data Patch | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:38, 17 September 2011
cascada - sound installation // Ruben Dhers
Cascada is a sound installation for prepared guitars and fans that musically interprets the sound of a waterfall and seeks to approach the vital irregularities that characterise natural events. In so doing, Cascada resizes the sound potential of an acoustic instrument and creates a sound architecture that only exists in the music of the installation.
The installation works with the amplified natural sound of the guitars without any kind of audio processing. Computer controlled hanging and placed fans (dc motors) strum the strings with variable intensity. The space is filled with a mass of harmonics and chords that suggest no beginning or end. Cascada drives the listener to a contemplative state.
Cascada
© ZKM Institut für Musik und Akustik
Sketches
1
2
Pure Data + Arduino
The Pd patch controls the speed of each fan separately. This works randomly, but partly limited in order to generate polyrhythmic patterns and dynamics. Slow changes happen approximately every five minutes.
Arduino
Pure Data Patch
<videoflash type=vimeo>27113321|437|300</videoflash>