Dave Young Description

A DESCRIPTION

RADIUS MUSIC 2.0

Walking into a dark space, you can see an abstract visualisation projected onto a platform [just over 1m^2] that is slightly raised up from the floor. The visualisation on the platform consists of white dots (pixels) [many more being added every second], around a centrepoint at seemingly unpredictable yet ordered radii. From the centrepoint of the platform there is a steel pole, less than one meter high, topped with a small rectangular platform only about 10cm across by 20cm long. The platform on the pole is made from transparent plastic, and is lit from the inside by a white light. A circuit board - and a motor connected to a revolving (distance) sensor by a pair of cogwheels - sits on top of the plastic platform. It might become apparent that there is a relationship between this revolving sensor and the circular visualisation on the lower platform. In accompaniment to the circular visualisation projected onto the platform, there is also a prominent sonic output: warbling sine waves producing a droning, repetitive sound characteristic of early electronic music experiments.