in:visible

Interactive Sound Installation 2006

 

In:visible is a sound installation that makes audible the usually inaudible/invisible plethora of electromagnetic waves that immerse us. Found samples of such invisible electro-magnetic occurances include natural sources such as the sun and stars, as well as man-made sources such as power lines, sockets and wireless devices. In:visible uses the usually invisible flow of network traffic to generate real time "live" compositions through interactive open source software, so that the network traffic becomes the "performer". Our intention is to make this invisible material an embodied aural experience for the listener, and to activate the physical installation space.

Technology has been both a material and a conceptual driver behind the realization of In:visible. Conceptually, technology is often invisible/inaudible. Materially, technology simultaneously creates electromagnetic waves and enables their recording. The Internet provides the found source samples, parts of the open source interactive software as well as the network flow analysis software, and indeed the flow of network traffic itself. As artists we wanted to post-produce these elements, to create a sonic architecture that would draw the listeners’ attention to these invisible but present emissions in an embodied way.