sound unsound

 


 Copper forest
  2008
Mixed Media, Sound, Electronics

 

Long view of mechanical song installation.
Created for the group show
"Once upon a Time" at the
Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery in Soho

Components in installation included: xylophone, glockenspiel, reed organ, percussion instruments, mechanically animated artificial tree, horn speakers and radio transmitter.

 

Detail of Goliath beetle, sculpted out of polymer clay, mechanized to play tiny percussion instruments in conjunction with the larger ensemble of mechanical instruments