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Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II, 2008 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II, 2008
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2008
Photo: Christopher Burke
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II, 2008
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II, 2008
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II, 2008 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II, 2008
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2008
Photo: Christopher Burke
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II, 2008 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II, 2008
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2008
Photo: Christopher Burke
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument,  study II (2008) with Hildur Guðnadóttir, at Life is spa - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2011 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II (2008) with Hildur Guðnadóttir, at Life is spa
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2011
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument,  study II (2008) with Hildur Guðnadóttir, at Life is spa - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2011 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II (2008) with Hildur Guðnadóttir, at Life is spa
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2011
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument,  study II (2008) with Hildur Guðnadóttir, at Life is spa - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2011 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II (2008) with Hildur Guðnadóttir, at Life is spa
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2011
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument,  study II (2008) with Hildur Guðnadóttir, at Life is spa - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2011 - Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II (2008) with Hildur Guðnadóttir, at Life is spa
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2011
Photo: María del Pilar García Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
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This work-in-progress constitutes part of an ongoing investigation into the correlation between sound and space at Studio Olafur Eliasson. Visitors create two sounds from either side of a stringed instrument, which are dispersed to a drawing station, six resonators, and two mirrors with a laser. At the drawing station, the sounds make two rods oscillate, converging with a pen that inscribes their rhythmic movement on a rotating piece of paper in the form of a spiral. Concurrently, the sounds travel to the six resonators, which reverberate tones determined by their respective shapes. Lastly, two speakers are affixed with mirrors that vibrate either vertically or horizontally with the sound. A laser bounces from one, creating horizontal vibration, then to the other, creating vertical vibration; their combined movement is projected onto the wall as a green laser drawing, tracing the same vibrations as recorded on the table.

Artwork details

Title

Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, study II

Year

2008

Materials

Wood, paper, plastic, metal, stringed instrument, lasers, resonators, tripods, speakers