26 June 2012
Spinning Four is a live audio visual performance involving multiple vintage fans, live vocals and strobe lights, along with live audio and video processing. From her memories of Indian classical music to the multiplicity of sounds emerging from old mechanical fans, Surabhi Saraf's Spinning Four deals with the phenomena on which we all depend, wind and breath.
She layers the sound of her voice over the droning percussion of the rotating blades of aged fans powered by eletric motors. While fans are used most familiarly to cool people (as well as the machinery that surround us), Saraf uses them to accompany the uttered sounds of her vocal chords.
Once on the air, these sound waves become electrical impulses and data that are manipulated through her laptop in real-time.
However, Spinning four is not only a sonic experience. Saraf also live-feeds the small fans as large video projections that, along her soundscapes, creates a visual experience immersive enough to remind that everything is constantly spinning around us- perhaps as the omnipresent elementary particles that quantum mechanics describes.
http://www.celesteprize.com/surabhisaraf
http://surabhisaraf.net/news/currents-2012-the-santa-fe-international-new-media-festival/
She layers the sound of her voice over the droning percussion of the rotating blades of aged fans powered by eletric motors. While fans are used most familiarly to cool people (as well as the machinery that surround us), Saraf uses them to accompany the uttered sounds of her vocal chords.
Once on the air, these sound waves become electrical impulses and data that are manipulated through her laptop in real-time.
However, Spinning four is not only a sonic experience. Saraf also live-feeds the small fans as large video projections that, along her soundscapes, creates a visual experience immersive enough to remind that everything is constantly spinning around us- perhaps as the omnipresent elementary particles that quantum mechanics describes.
http://www.celesteprize.com/surabhisaraf
http://surabhisaraf.net/news/currents-2012-the-santa-fe-international-new-media-festival/
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