Apologue
2022
Cement, wood, metal, 8x8 channel live sound.
Apologue is an eight channel installation that utilizes feedback as its sounding source. The tone of the feedback is the fundamental frequency of each cement vessel, derived from the volume of the form. Physical bodies and voices introduce new overtones into the system, altering the pitches of the tones. The wooden cones act as directional microphones, funneling the sound from inside the four interior vessels upward to be played through the wooden speakers. Lowered tones of feedback are transduced through the four outer vessels in the system. The cones and shells reference platonic geometric forms, echoing the sonic content of the piece. Each viewer’s experience of the installation is unique, depending on their locality in space, as well as that of other’s in that shared place.
