Sonic Body

Video

We’ve put a video together to show the Sonic Body in action. It’s short but gives an idea of the installation. Of course you don’t really get all the atmosphere, the feel of the fabric and the depth of the surround sound.

Sound

We also did some recordings with the idea of doing a DVD using 5.1 surround sound, This is one segment of the recording, but merged into stereo. You have a background layer made of a sub rumble which have a slow evolution. On top of this you will hear most the different sounds that was triggered/generated by the person in the Sonic Body.

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Pictures

“The looped results (of the sonic body) are addictively danceable mutations of minimal techno. As science looks ever outward, it seems culturally significant that such alien music would transmit from the internal network of our very bodies.” David Michael Perez, from My Body, My Discotech, review of the Sonic Body in Rhizome

The installation is finished and on show at Blank Gallery, Brighton until November 8th 2007.

Gallery entrance

Gallery view

Gallery view

Queuing for the installation

Entrance

Inside the installation

Inside the installation

Detail inside the installation

Recording devices

This the final step of the Sonic Body Structure. We realised that we unconsciencely made a analogy of the human body in our structure. Bones = Wood, Carpet = Skin, Wire and Sensors = Nervous Systems and Senses, Flesh = Foam, etc..

Probably a common thing as inventions often used to be inspired by the human body. Our installation is just a lot less complex in a way.

A bit more of the messy wiring system of the installation, could have been worse. The Sonic Body is actually “plug n play”. There is only one power plug coming out of it. You plug it, turn the computer and the amplifier on, press play. It’s ready for mass production :)