Sound Installation - Sonia Paço-Rocchia

Installation sur le Slinky, seconde version

03/08/2010

version 2010

After the first version if the installation, in 2004, a research on the slinky and performances of Sans Escalier, piece for slinky solo, the Slinky saga continue.

Frances Bowman asked to be part of Part Ark, an week-end of exhibition in a park, as a sound artist. I though that I could wake up my slinkies. Installation sur le slinky is an interactive installation using slinkies as source of sound. I did it years ago in Montréal, (Installation sur le slinky). But this one, in London, is partly inspired by Robin Whittle slinky research.

Here is a little video of this year slinky installation:

Boxes' test

16/04/2010

Invisible Ink

15/11/2008

A little sound installation. A book where you can write your secret, your best quote, it is invisible ink, but your secret will produce sounds.

This installation as been presented in Around This House - Happening in the Library

(video) Video of different secrets
(audio) Some recordings of "secrets"

Build Your Harmony

09/06/2008

A blue cylinder. Touch it, it will sing. Move it, it will sing another note. Put the orange rectangular prism on it. This way, the note it sings is consonant with the note of the cylinder. Take the red triangular prism. Put it sideways. You have now a dissonant chord. And now, the green pyramid, and the purple cone. Build yourself a still life of geometric shapes, build your harmony.

Build your harmony is a interactive sound installation for all ages. Youngers will enjoy playing with big blocks making sounds, and and olders will appreciate the infinite different harmonies they can create by interacting with the shapes, at the same time affecting the rhythm. When nobody will interact with the installation, the last harmony will become soft and will develop rhythmically on its own, and will develope its own un-phase rythm. If the shape is not moving its sound will fade out slowly to a very low volume. When somebody moves it the volume will quickly fade in. If this person moves the shape more vigorously the volume will increase, and when this person leaves the shape stationary the sound will fade out slowly.