After the Midterms, I had been floating, partly on post-stress stupor, but also around a fundamental question surrounding my project: What is it about? What holds it together?
Now when people ask me, I reply with the standard
“Most people are intimidated by electronics and I want to bring it closer to people.”
but this is a very broad answer, it doesn’t really answer the question “what are you working on?”.
Collab announcement: Ana Mikadze!
(Ana indtroduces their topic)
They approached me saying they know a place that would fit my interest and skillset.
The place is called Mz*Baltazar’s Lab.
The Lab is currently looking for more participants in their exhibition starting June 25th.
How does this change the course of my project?
The project is now given a specific stage to work within, since the exhibition has restrictions on size etc.
Concept / Installation
The Tinkerer’s Desk
The Tinkerer’s Desk is an installation that takes the classic image of the lone genius at their workbench and quietly dismantles it.
The desk presented here is designed for multiple bodies, multiple intentions, no hierarchy of skill.
During a [three-hour] live activation, visitors are invited to record a six-second sound – a breath, a word, a tone or accidental noise and program it into a broken speaker, assembled and disassembled by hand on the spot.
The broken speaker is not repaired so much as redirected: imperfection is retained as character.
The speakers produced across the activation accumulate into a site-specific polyphonic instrument — a spontaneous archive of a particular space, a particular group of people, a particular slice of time.
Each speaker holds one voice.
Together, they can be played: triggered individually or in combination, they produce a sound environment that belongs to no single author and no fixed composition.What results is less a concert than a conversation between objects, a collective memory that remains activatable – catchable — long after the workshop has ended.
Description text by Ana Mikadze
Next steps
- Procuring materials
- A trial with ~3 participants
- Aesthetics and mechanics fine-tuning
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