Pitch Figures - Studio Installation Project

When: Spring 2013

Instructor: Geoffrey von Oeyen

This was a studio collaborative project in which one project from the studio was chosen to build. The criteria used to choose the project was ultimately based on the ease of access to the materials and the ability of the material to withstand natural forces.

This sound installation focuses on the play on the seaweed-like structural "tubes" in Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediatheque. "Pitch Figures" leverages the motion, verticality, and sound achieved by a field of suspended conduit pipes arranged in spatial figures that vary in plan and elevation. Grouped in ring formations, individual pipe lengths calibrate specific pitches. Pipes are damped and codified with colored paper bands. One's perception of touch, depth, and movement are engaged in this forest of sounds. .