Tangible Frequencies
David Tinapple & Andrew Johnson
When Pulse Becomes Pitch
Open Space
7:30 pm, Thursday January 26th [ ongoing ]
Johnson’s exhibitions address exigencies of daily realities and undress the refined aesthetics of art. Some topics of past solo exhibitions include: the Haitian grass roots movement in Lavalas; homelessness in CincinnatiÌs Over the Rhine neighborhood in AÔDressing Room; predatory economics in just another market mop up, which premiered at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and in StOck OptiOns at Wellesley College in MA; hemispheric hegemonies in Democracy on Ice at Big Orbit Gallery in Buffalo; unabated sowing of land mines in Spring---Let Them Keep Their Children Tethered at Seton Hill College; the oppression of Palestine in Pressed: When Words Were Earth at PittsburghÌs Chatham College and TorontoÌs A Space; cultural eclipses in One Night or a Thousand Others at University of Georgia, Athens and in Cleave at Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI.
Tinapple situates himself at the crossroads of art, technology and perception. He has performed and shown work internationally at venues including Festival International Nouveau Cinéma Nouveaux Medias Montreal (FCMM 2001), RELINE (2002), X|FEST NYC (2003), Courtisane Film Festival Belgium (2003), the Ohio Center of Science Industry (2003), and Chaise DVD magazine (2005). He has performed live video with musicians including Mouse on Mars, Oval, Jonas Sharp, Amon Tobin, Monolake, Marumari, Safety Scissors, Joshua Clayton, Carl Craig and Maryanne Amacher. He has produced interactive CD-ROM’s for Saturday Night Live; Interface and interaction design at Match.com; Interface design for medical equipment; Interface and visualization research at the Ohio Supercomputer Center; Research and design of cognitive systems, information visualization and human-computer interaction at the Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory.
Website: www.davidtinapple.com
Media example
View Quicktime movie - When Pulse Becomes Pitch
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When Pulse Becomes Pitch
When Pulse Becomes Pitch is an interactive audio installation consisting of a pair of aluminum public address speaker horns. The visitor speaks into a microphone placed in front of, almost swallowed by, the bell of the horn. Taking cues from phonemes, consonants, bilabial fricatives, and glottal stops, the qualities of the visitor’s spoken voice triggers another voice, a foreign tongue resonating from the horn. When the visitor speaks, the other speaks. The relationship is immediately clear.
The question arises, is this voice mine? Is what I am saying accurately reflected? Is this voice a reflection of mine, or a response to my voice? The less evident relationship is that of the silence. My silence triggers silence in the other. It is this second relationship that lingers after the visitor leaves the piece. The active vocal coupling is broken, but the coupling of silence remains, echoes with the visitor.
"It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds… The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds." -Ivan Illich
This interactive acoustic framework makes urgent the causal relationships between voices. Questions of power, identity, and agency persist even in the most emergent technological context. Who controls the situation, determines the parameters of the event, maintains the apparatus, defines the sounds, contextualizes meaning, and instills silence?
When Pulse Becomes Pitch: A pulse, a beat, a rhythm becomes a pitch, tone, slant, distance.
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