Material Memory: Objects of the Ordinary
Designed by ephemeral objects VariablePlastic, wood, hazelnut, string, cotton, rice paper, aluminum Building on Tonomi Adachi’s exploration of imaginary instruments and the use of AI in sonic imagination, Reimagining the Ordinary examines how technology and material memory intersect in the act of instrument-making. Drawing from Vietnamese natural and synthetic found objects, the work explores both the creative […]
Bègèna & Krar reimagined
Designed by DANI YOUR DARLING Painted Leather hanging on polished wood frame These sketches incorporate the materials that are utilized to create the Bègèna and Krar as a means of reconciling the intentional incompleteness of this acoustic instrument building project with myself. Through which, I familiarize myself with these materials in preparation for when I’ll […]
Street Deer
Designed by Inès Allegra Desuasido Lupton 6 x 9.5indeer metacarpal, emerald ink, latex tubing, Yamaha fipple The breath is traditionally used to access realms beyond us in our waking memories and sleeping desires. The cut bone embouchures play with breath channels to create experimental flutes inviting us to access the different dreamsongs of the endless […]
Wing Instrument
Designed by x/o 49.6” x 14.7”Rolled steel, metal chains, rubber grommet, and violin bow Wing Instrument extends x/o’s ongoing inquiry into embodied duality, tracing where sound and structure, movement and stillness begin to blur. Suspended in air by chains, the wing shaped metal plate hovers in a state of potential; an instrument or appendage, something almost […]
re:Inventing the Wheel
Designed by XEL Re:inventing the Wheel is an exploration of sonic possibility. It is centred in listening in between and beyond the expected. it’s finding sound in the margins, in the overlooked, in the spaces between deliberate notes. This isn’t about creating a finished piece, but about the raw potential of listening to transform found […]
Anti-Resonant Body
Designed by Mark Wickstead 72” X 1.5” X .75”Oak, contact piezo mic, machine heads, guitar strings, violin bow Anti-Resonant Body is inspired by traditional instruments; the haegeum from Korea, the Chinese xiqin and Japanese shamisen. These traditional instruments served as a starting point only in the design of Anti- Resonant Body. Aesthetic decisions have been […]
