Pendulum update

Posted by Gavin Brockis on Monday 09 March 2009 at 11:44am
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As it turned out, my installation of Pendulum Music was more of a development of the original piece than a straight performance. The nature of the space allowed the audience to walk around and interact with the microphones, and experience it more as an audio experiment. I asked the stewards not to stop people swinging the pendulums (gently!), and as a result, people were experimenting and playing with them, and exploring the different feedback tones generated at different positions. It became more of an exercise in sonic entropy, with the movement of the pendulums dissipating the more intense feedback into the enormous and resonant space. Very powerful, and lovely to pique people's curiosity with quite a whimsical, and not traditionally 'musical' audio piece. A great success !

One of the four amp/mic combos (Vox AC15 and vintage audio-technica) at close range, photographed by Kevin Scholtes

I'm now planning to develop the recording of the clocks at Blaise into a separate stand-alone piece, using non phase-aligned Low Frequency Oscillators to modulate a range of digital effects, and create an interesting and unsettling digital space for them. Hopefully the Art Week here at the ILRT will give me an opportunity to show this in an early form.

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