Untitled Sound Objects
Pe Lang + Zimoun

Electro Hub Magnets behind Display Window, 2005.
Marks Blond Project Bern, Switzerland.

The entire window display of the art room is filled with simple robots standing next to one another. Sensors register whether and at what distance somebody is standing in front of the display. As soon as the sensors take up on somebody, the robots knock on the window display. The further away the person is, the more hesitant and at greater intervals the knocks occur, the nearer the person comes, the knocks are intensified and faster, until – when the person is right in front – the machinery is running at high speed, thus weaving a dense carpet of rhythms. The window itself, but also the parts knocking on it are slightly manipulated to cause a wide variety of different, interweaving sounds in a small space. Through subtle inaccuracies and constant slight variations of the robots the installation appears to become organic and to be alive.

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