The sound installation Study # 1 for Vibrant Surfaces is strongly based on the idea that everything is vibration. In this vibrating universe, a small portion is performed mechanically in some medium organized by more or less dense molecules. These vibrations in these specific materials and in a range of vibrations (20 to 20,000 per second) in contact with the air or a bone (!) can – in some cases – be perceived by humans and animals as sound.

The sound installation project “Study # 1 for Vibrant Surfaces” is based on the premise – imagine if everything could become a speaker? From everyday objects to surfaces of the most diverse materials, everything spoke, everything sang, everything resonated! Imagine also that the sound could be “heard” by the bones of the fingers, for example, or by contact with any transmitting bone! A sound stripped of your skin and reduced to its most basic and primitive components. In addition to being audible by deaf people, for example.

The installation consists of 4 thin plates (.5 cm) 210 cm long and 80 cm wide. These plates are attached by steel cables to two holes at the top. Various plate layouts are possible. For this first approach, we propose brass plates (copper + zinc), flanders (iron + steel + tin), recycled glass and treated wood. Each material has a vibration coefficient relative to weight (mass) and elasticity. All system is controlled by individual presence sensor (one for each plate).