Soundtrack for someone who has been turned round having the bearing of one who’s going away
2012. Reel to reel tape recorder, 1/4 tape, carabiner
As documented, 12m, 2' loop
Soundtrack for someone who has been turned round having the bearing of one who’s going away examines the paradox created by contrasting sounds created when a repetitive loop, played continuously, decays to noise moving towards silence.
There are two devices that enable the visual registration of the process, the adhesive tape that joints the beginning and the end of the 1/4 tape, and the bandage on one of the reels of the tape recorder that holds the discrete particles coming out from the eroded tape.
As documented, 12m, 2' loop
 Visualizing Sound, LABoral Art Centre, Gijón 2012 |
Soundtrack for someone who has been turned round having the bearing of one who’s going away examines the paradox created by contrasting sounds created when a repetitive loop, played continuously, decays to noise moving towards silence.
Using 1/4” magnetic tape, the original material used for experiments with tape loops, the installation creates a continually changing sound composition.
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A reel to reel tape recorder plays a 1/4” tape. A metal carabiner, placed 12 metres away, is used to create a physical loop of the tape out into the space and contributes to the continuous erosion of the tape as it is worn away by the metal, progressively turning sound to noise.
The sound emanating from the tape is composed of two sections, a one minute recording of an airplane taking off and one minute of interval. A sine wave in C is always present, but more apparent in the interval.
The duration of the recording corresponds with the distance from the machine to the carabiner, it starts in the machine and finishes in the carabiner twelve metres away, allowing the viewer to follow visually the duration of the sound in the space, from the reel to reel tape recorder to the carabiner.
There are two devices that enable the visual registration of the process, the adhesive tape that joints the beginning and the end of the 1/4 tape, and the bandage on one of the reels of the tape recorder that holds the discrete particles coming out from the eroded tape.
