New Materialisms (Station 3.3)

Resonance (The Bell) is a sound installation that problematizes the relationship between an object, space and the audience. The resonant frequency of a pipe placed in the middle of the room is 140 Hz. Audio loudspeaker in the center of the steel pipe continually reproduces a 140Hz tone that stimulates the pipe to vibrate and produce its own tone. Vibrations of the pipe are interacting with the space, causing a sound reflection and changes in tone, depending on the visitor’s position in space.

The composition entitled "Interference" is specifically composed for a sound installation Resonance (Bell), two audio generators (204c hp) and an audio mixer. The piece positions the performer in the role of a catalyst between the audience, object and space. The performer manually regulates sinusoidal frequencies of 110-140 Hz emitted from the object. The tempo of the frequency changes controlled by the performer causes gradual intertwining of sinusoidal waves and the interference in the space of the performance.

Part of the exhibition Materialisms (station 3). New Materialisms series is a long-term program of exhibitions and lectures that has been developed in a collaborative process between grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art from Korčula and HICA (Highlands Institute for Contemporary Art) from Scotland since 2015.

New Materialisms project reflects historically divergent art practices and discursive fields of concrete and conceptual art, as defined in the 1960s. Project tackles understanding of those art practices through the discourse of post-media contemporary approaches to art as well as via post-digital condition of our every day life, whereby digitality is interwoven with each aspect of our social being. New Materialisms strives to formulate a dialogue among important authors of concrete and conceptual art and contemporary practitioners who work within the post-media context, while assuming the design of aesthetical experience as vital mechanism which has its agency in the process of creating the physical world.