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CAMERA RIVERBERANTE caratterizzata da pareti con un assorbimento acustico nullo e di schermi girevoli a forma di pale, in grado di rendere uniforme la distribuzione del suono nell’ambiente. Le pareti sono progettate in modo tale che la riflessione delle pareti sia massima ad ogni riflessione le onde sonore subiscono perdite molto basse. Queste riflessioni producono una distribuzione di energia acustica uniforme in modo tale che in ogni punto della sala si abbia l’’impressione che il suono arrivi da tutte le direzioni.

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Camera

CAMERA ANECOICA è un ambiente privo di fenomeni di riverberazioni acustiche, in cui qualunque suono prodotto dentro la camera, a qualunque frequenza, viene completamente assorbito.

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INTONARUMORI // NOISE INTONERS

family of musical instruments invented in 1913 by Italian Futurist painter and musical composer Luigi Russolo

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STEVEN RODEN - 2004 / AIRFORM was created for the exhibition phx/la at the scottsdale museum of contemporary art in scottsdale arizona. airforms was created in response to the experimental houses designed by wallace neff in the 1940′s through a process he called ‘airform construction’. the houses were built by spraying concrete over an inflated balloon structure to create an organic shaped dwelling that was inspired by neff’s interest in the design of the nautillus sea shell. the goodyear company that built the balloons for the houses was based in a suburb of phoenix called lichtfield park, where a few of the houses were built.
among the many interests that inspired neff’s balloon structures, was an interest in the aesthetic and psychological results of structures formed by air. airforms takes off from neff’s ideas in both the physical and audio construction – both using air as a kind of invisible skeleton. the 5 objects were sculpted out of plaster set over simple children’s balloons. the sound piece was created using the transformed sound of one breath blowing through an old wooden organ pipe. the colors on the sculptures connect the work from my own home back to arizona, in that the colored lines are based on the vowel structures of 5 succulents that were listed as native to arizona in a 1930′s guide to the huntington libary of pasadena. each of the 5 hollow plaster forms has a speaker inside of it running a 4 channel audio work. the work was later shown at raid projects los angeles.

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MORE STEVEN RODEN

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fulgurites/2004 – was created for a 4 foot by 90 foot space at the sculpture center in new york. the work was named after the phenomenon of natural glass being created when lightning strikes the earth. my interest is in the idea of this piece of glass as a kind of poetic residue of a moment captured in physical form – an event frozen in time.
the sound source of the installation was composed using the last notes i was able to sound on my grandfather’s violin before it disappeared – sound as this poetic residue of a series of small moments captured in audible form.the installation consisted of 80 small audio speakers situated inside of the center core of a large bottle (the top and bottom have been cut away by hand) – the crude glass tube acts as a metaphor for the fulgurite as well as a funtioning resonator for the speakers.

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ANISH KAPOOR TATE LONDON 2002