Synesthesia  - An Interactive Installation of Sculpture and Sound

SYNESTHESIA is a forest of sight and sound. The exhibition is comprised of four quadrants: Moon, DNA, Sun and Earth.   In addition there is an installation entitled "Life and Tech" which defines the overall concept of the show as it mixes the organic(fish DNA) with the technological(the audio processing equipment used to create the sounds). The visual environment blends organic elements such as hay with iridescent and functionally beautiful man made products of metal, cement, acrylic and duct tape while the sonic environment produces individual musical sounds and randomly generated snippets of electro-acoustic compositions which aurally evoke the visual stimuli and vice versa.

Each installation becomes interactive when an audience is introduced.   As one or more people approach the sculptures infrared sensors pick up their movement and musical sounds are generated.   While each sculptural unit exists as a visual and musical whole, the audience can, in essence, create a unique compositional variation of their own by making movements to and away from the sculptures nad moving in and out of the different quadrants. As the audience moves around the gallery to another sculptural unit, a completely different, individual and random visual-musical piece will be activated.

Synesthesia is poetry of the senses; a collaborative process of the senses.   The ultimate experience of what is presented depends on the acknowledgement and participation of the audience. Synesthesia enriches the expression and experience of intelligence and its randomness makes it a quicksilver template of perception.

Sculpture-DNA

Music-DNA Jazz

Sculpture-Earth                                  

Music-Indigenous