[spectre] Nano-sound installation in Perth (apologies for cross-posting)

[Joel Ong]

Dear All,






  
i would like to draw to your attention a sound installation/performance entitled Nanovibrancy that is going to happen later today (sunday 10 July) at the John Curtin Gallery in Perth from 5pm.This is presented as part of the fufilment of the Masters in Biological Arts programme in SymbioticA, the centre of excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia.More information and documentation can be found on the facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118871624866907and arkfrequencies.com

Nanovibrancy explores nanoscale activity through sound by amplifying the oscillations at the surface of a model tympanic membrane in real time.It repurposes the Atomic Force Microscope as a super$B!>(Bsensitive listening device by modelling tympanic listening with a 3mm diameter silk membrane stretched over a small metal disc.  This allows it to register interferences from the environment and tap the resonances of acoustic space through a performance of controlled feedback.Moving from the laboratory into the art gallery, the project shifts the observations of matter at the nanoscale from the scientific eye to the artistic ear, amplifying the resonances of fact and fiction, purity and interference through a site$B!>(Bspecific confluence of nano$B!>(B and human$B!>(Bscale listening.

for those in the area, the John Curtin Gallery was also the site of the amazing Art in the Age of Nanotechnology exhibition featuring works from Paul Thomas, Boo Chapple, Jim Gimzewski, Victoria Vesna and Anne Niemetz back in 2010.  This current exhibition extends this focus on the amplification of forces and energetic oscillations at the nanoscale, presenting the results of this transduction as sound.  An imaginative listening practice is proposed to experience the voice of vibrating atoms.  A limited edition CD-R is also available.

for more information email joel at arkfrequencies.com
Cheers

 		 	   		  
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