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sound_ecologies [installation]
ogden museum of art
new orleans_la [spring.2009]

Design Team:
Marcella Del Signore, Victor Jones, Luis Quinones, Daniel Kautz

Materials + Fabrication
Benjamin Flatau, Jill Godfrey, Daniel Gorecki, Michael Keller, Culum Osborne, William Sandlass, Lorriee Tumlinson

Fabricator:
Central City Millworks,
New Orleans

A fabricated landscape of cones finds its origins in the ambient sounds of New Orleans. This site specific installation emphasizes the transformation of invisible sound bands and frequencies into an atmosphere landscape made of material and color. The sculptural topography, intricately fabricated from individual pieces, is made of 300 CNC milled acrylic plates that are folded to create cylindrical cells snapped together with 10,000 rivets. Each cell, unique in diameter and height, creates an intriguing visual surface reminiscent of geological or biological surfaces.
Sounds augment the dimension of public space, linking geography with human activity. Our proposal reinterprets the traditional relationship of sound defined by physical space. Rather, the installation offers new spatial possibilities as sound acts as a generator for transforming matter into a complex spatial topography otherwise invisible to the naked eye.



failure[s] ;

*Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success.

*wikipedia
Failure Types;

1 _ Failure to anticipate
2 _ Failure to perceive

we [design team] failed to anticipate the rigidity of the material in our initial explorations. this not only affected time but also connection between cones. For example, we initially expected each cone to require one person 2 minutes to rivet the cone[s], it ended up taking 2 people five minutes to assemble each cone. Secondly we failed to understand the difficulty in orienting each cone based on the immediate neighbor. Since we only code[d] the location and generation of each cone we knew the location but not the orientation and connection angle to each neighbor.

The failure in this sense was the transition between the digital and physical constraints.