Call and Resonance

Five very large test tubes are used to impart strong resonances on hand made sound making circuits in each tube. Each circuit independently alternates between recording sound and playing back its recording. The sounds recorded are a combination of the sounds produced by the other tubes, the ambient sounds of the space, and the resonance of the tube. In this way, the combined soundfield is an emergent property of the five tubes, that is, each tubes sound is dependent on the contributions of the others.

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Call and Resonance, a sound installation - Ted Apel - Test tubes, electronics, sound

Exhibitions

Boise Art Museum, December 2006–January 2007
Southwestern College, March 2007
Knob and Tube Variations, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, January–February 2009
Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2012
First Prize, Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (FETA) Prize in Sound Art, 2013