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collaboration:

orkan telhan, dietmar offenhuber, markus decker




dustserenade:


please visit http://dustserenade.net/


'Dust Serenade' is a reenactment of an acoustic experiment done by German
physicist August Kundt. Inspired by the Chladni's famous sand figures
visualizing sound waves in solid materials, Kundt devised an experiment for
visualizing longitudinal sound waves through fine lycopodium dust; a setup
that would allow him to measure the speed of sound in different gases.

Kundt was a strong believer in experimental methods over purely theoretical
inquiry in a time when the disciplines of theoretical and experimental physics
started to diverge.

'Dust Serenade' intends to remind us the materiality of sound. Tubes filled
with scraps of words and letters--cut-up theory--interact with sound waves and
turn into figures of dust. Here, visitors can modulate the frequency of the
sound emitted by moving a rod and create different harmonic sound effects. As
sound waves figure, refigure, and disfigure the text, we invite visitors to
rethink about the tension between their theorical knowlegde and the sensory
experience.

Dust Serenade is one of a series of interactive sound projects that enable
visitors to experience the physical aspects of sound, presence, and
atmosphere.  Works in the series have been shown at the Ars Electronica
Festival in Linz,  Zagreb, Istanbul and São Paulo.




shows:

mit museum boston 2010, newlaboratoria moscow 2012