The sound sculpture "Listening Is Making Sense" uses wooden beams as vectors for the propagation of sound vibrations diffused through the wood by tactile transducers (loudspeakers that convert the audio signal into mechanical vibration). The transducers are positioned in the barycenter of the structures so that the sound can propagate by contact through the beams and change its frequencies and dynamics according to the different properties of filtering and absorption of the sound waves by the wood.
The sculpture is apparently silent and the only way to listen to it is therefore to get into physical contact with the resonant matter by placing the ear straight onto the wood.
Awards
WED, OCT 30, 2019 Updated
Michele Spanghero, "Listening Is Making Sense" (2012, version 2017) @ Finstral Studio, Friedberg (Germany)
Michele Spanghero, "Listening Is Making Sense" (2012, version 2016) @ 16th Art Quadriennale, Rome (Italy)
Michele Spanghero, "Listening Is Making Sense" (2012, version 2019) @ Benetton Foundation, Treviso (Italy) (ph. Marco Pavan)
