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pendulum.
Physical Oscillators, Future everything, Victoria Baths residency,
Manchester 2011
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Physical Oscillators, Future everything, Victoria Baths residency,
Manchester 2011
Work commissioned by VB Arts, Victoria Baths. Shown during
Future Everything 2011
An installation continuing my research into physical oscillators
to generate sound and visible patterns in a new kinetic artwork,
created within the space of a now empty swimming pool. The
project used pendulums and the gyroscopic action of motors
and fans to create a sensory walk through environment reflecting
the behavior of small swimming or flying insects.
Wave pendulum - The swing of a pendulum is governed by its
length, which sets frequency of the swing. When a pendulum
set in motion, the time it takes to swing fro side to side
[frequency] remains constant, until it stops moving, even
as the movement [amplitude] gets smaller. A longer pendulum
will swing slowly, where as a shorter pendulum will swing
faster.
This set of pendulums are hung at equal spacing while increasing
in length in 10cm steps. When all the pendulums are released
at the same moment form the same angle, a continually morphing
waveform emerges as the pendulums begin to find their own
unique frequency. The wave form is an illusion that becomes
increasingly complex as time goes on until eventually it
becomes difficult to recognise the patterns at all.