This interactive installation was shown in the exhibition 'Personal Structures: Culture-Mind-Becoming', a Collateral Event taking place during the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. It took place across three different venues in Venice: Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Marcello, My work was shown in Palazzo Bembo, Riva del Carbon 4793, 30124 Venice, Italy.
The post-opening catalogue includes exhibition text by Nicola Rae and a photograph of Rae's installation: 'Reciprocal Resonances Refracted'.
'This installation involved projecting sound visualisations activated by live audience participation. The program Overtone Analyzer allows interactive sound generation to become visual mark-making through reciprocal sonic play.
The idea of using triangles as a source of interactive sound generation developed through looking at musical instruments played by Venetians during the Renaissance, when Pietro Bembo inhabited the Palazzo. During the Ottoman-Venetian wars at this time, triangles were played by invading Turkish soldiers as part of their percussive Janissary music. The Turkish triangles were made of brass and had rings hanging from their lower bars: but my triangles were made by Percussion Plus, a British percussion manufacturer recommended for their resonant tones. Although not intended to be a sonic ‘invasion’, there were moments when interactivity reached crescendos of sound that were unusual for the Palazzo.
Audience participation during the four opening nights was memorable, as were the many conversations that took place. A deaf visitor was delighted to be able to see the sounds that she was making and so judge different levels of sound visually. Artists who were also musicians activated the installation in particularly inventive ways. Many children responded uninhibitedly to the prospect of sonic experimentation....as did so many others.
CYBERFEST 9: Patterns of the Mind, The State Hermitage Museum (Youth Education Centre), Moika River Embankment entrance, St Petersburg, Russia. (reshowing of an expanded, site-responsive version of this installation).