Vicky Zhou – Looking Outwards 11

For this week’s looking outward centered on computational music, I decided to focus on a project by Andrius Sarapovas: a kinetic generative music installation. This installation turns a 4G network into a series of musical sounds, based on n algorithm and through 77 segments distributed through the physical exhibition space. Each segment consists of a metal bar, a sound activator, a sound damper, a resonator, and mechatronics, that pick up on the signals in the 4G network. The placement of these segments were optimized and based on the actual physical exhibition space.

I appreciate this project because it intakes very impersonal data that we commonly and frequently discard, and/or don’t understand, and transforms it into a medium that we are more familiar with, and can enjoy.