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7-9 april 2006
Åpning fredag 7 april kl 21-23


Carl Palm

A sound piece installed in a space with eight computer speakers, a number of electronic components, four IR sensor module and the audience.

The eight speakers is placed on small shelfs, two on each wall. The electronics is stored in a box in the sealing, out of sight for the visitors. The four IR sensors is placed in the corner of the sealing to be able to cover the room. As the power is entering the circuit box the first of the ten cards is transforming the power to 5 volts and sending it forward to the eight cards which is handling the speakers rhythm.

The sound from the speakers is an out come of collected thoughts of the speakers as providers of all different kind of sound for us humans. So also in this case, but what is different in this representation is my attempt to show the origin speaker sound. The speakers self sound. So I amusing the 5 volts to let the speakers sound as they are constructed, the size, material, volume and pre set levels is the new visible framework for the sound that we will hear.

The circuits are constructed to play the same rhythm over and over again. But they are so easily disturbed or by the power around that they have problem to keep the tempo.

The IR sensors will detect infrared radiation changes in the room. So if you are moving in the room the circuits closes the gate to the speakers and silence will occur. The electronics is constructed in such a way that if something is triggering the sensors the reload will approximately take ten seconds.

I have to leave a short opening fore the audience to be able to tell the story about the speakers life in the art context.

I like the way that visitors will walk the room, see the speakers and think as they are moving that this piece is not working. And they will walk out of the room unconscious of that they are so much part of reveling for the other visitors what this artwork could be about.
And the problematic of showing something that does not want to be shown but to be able to talk about it, it has to communicate just that. Which i contradicting and nice.

Carl Palm is studying at the Royal college of fine art in Stockholm.

www.carlpalm.com