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Unveiled Presence – Secret Sounds 2

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Jo-Anne
Green

unveiledpresence.jpgUnveiled Presence – Secret Sounds 2 by Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski @ Lab 30 - In the sound installation »Unveiled presence« the »yelling and crying« sounds of the New York subway are processed. This very sustained and squeaking sounds can be even heard above the ground by the ventilation shafts in many places and therefore form an unmistakable component of the city soundscape. From recordings at different crosspoints of the underground rail system these sounds are worked out and arranged in a composition.

Also see UNVEILED PRESENCE (secret sounds 1v), a virtual version in Second Life that also gives a preview of a future real life installation.


Oct 17, 2007
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4 Responses

  1. acoustics101:

    As aesthetically spare as this installation appears to be, the effect is completely VISUAL. It makes very little sense ACOUSTICALLY to install loudspeakers in this manner.

    This installation does not respect basic acoustics!

    That is, unless it is intentional to remove all frequencies below about 1700Hz (if these are 8″ drivers), which doesn’t seem to make sense for an installation purporting to celebrate the sounds of the New York subway.

    As Wikipedia states:
    The major role of the enclosure is to prevent the out of phase sound waves from the rear of the speaker from combining with the ‘in phase’ sound waves from the front of the speaker. This results in interference patterns and cancellation, causing the efficiency of the speaker to be reduced, particularly in the low frequencies where the wavelengths are large enough that interference will affect the entire listening area.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeaker_enclosure

    So, if the spare aesthetic is desired, maybe the drivers should be small boxes or other small aesthetically pleasing units.

    This basic fetishism for the form of the loudspeaker may feed some sort of minimalist gear porn sensitivities, but acoustically it is quaint at best, if not downright insulting.

    Oct 17, 20:16

  2. sonic surrounds » Blog Archive » sound art that ignores acoustics:

    […] the meantime, here’s the (hopefully well measured) comment I left on the NMR blog entry about this artwork. […]

    Oct 17, 20:50

  3. bret:

    this work does not appear like a “basic” sound installation.
    Did you got the concept and did you have head it?

    Oct 28, 17:44

  4. bret:

    heard…sorry

    Oct 28, 17:48

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