The Night Sounds

 

Description

4 metal buckets – suspended with piano wire along the sidewalk – and activated by small motors and a custom programmed piece of software which captures the organic patterns of cicada rhythms. This all creates a kinetic sculpture that throbs and drones with all the energy of the surrounding cicadas, but with a sound all its own.  As rain gradually fills the buckets over time (if it actually rains) the acoustic footprint of the piece will change throughout the exhibition.  

 

Bio

Shawn Decker is a composer, artist, and teacher who creates sound and electronic media installations and writes music for live performance, film, and video. His work is positioned at the intersection of music composition, the visual arts, and performance, using physical and electronic media to investigate, simulate and praise the natural (and unnatural) worlds.

http://www.shawndecker.com