In this sound installation, the audience searches voices and songs in a room using electromagnetic detectors.
premiered at Light Box (11/16-11/17/2020) and Spread Arts (11/23-11/24/2020) Magnets and Ghosts is a part of the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge.
Program
Technology enables us to sense undetectable energy fluctuations; we do not see or feel electromagnetic fields in the air, but machines convert them into signals we can hear. I use electromagnetic transducers, sometimes known as ghost detectors, to create a sound installation that turns a room into a storyteller. When audiences approach a specific part of a structure with a “ghost detecting device,” they can amplify a voice inaudible with naked ears. The installation has multiple electromagnetic fields embedded in different spots, and the audiences can create a piece of music by discovering these energy fields.
Many is an app that generates a series of long reverb tones. The reverb time is long enough to sustain a pitch. Use your own sample and choose between five modes to create a continuous (perhaps never-ending) ambient sounds.
My friend and musical role model Starkey released a collaborative album. In technical terms, it is a project extended from ISJS. In aesthetical terms, the project is about restraints and forms. Personally, and most importantly, it is two friends saying ‘hey!’ to each other.
Starkey joins friend and composer Joo Won Park for an EP entitled “Piano Triplets” on NOREMIXES. The release showcases Joo Won Park’s unique supercollider processing over Starkey’s production samples. Three unique pieces, each consisting of only three samples: hardware and software synthesis meets piano in these short bursts of experimentation.