Pyrite, a work in progress 2006
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timothy crowley, exhibition, sonic art,
art, artist, tim crowley, sound installations, sculpture, cubes, crystal
Pyrite is an interactive and generative sound installation, noises made by a person within the room are recorded and played back to them together with previously recorded sounds. A hidden computer, running a program in supercollider, pseudo-intelligently interacts with the viewer in this way, by composing and playing sound scapes, which alter along with the level of interaction going on. The viewer becomes part of the performance, the audio scapes, generatively composed by the computer, are half communicating with and half emulating the viewers sounds, it's audio language growing in diversity, as it builds up a collection of recorded sounds. Pyrite reflects and amplifies the ambience of its surroundings, cubic forms functioning as speaker enclosures project sounds across the floor area creating a field of sound. It is a playful art installation, aurally, visually and spatially whether one is interacting or simply observing.