Interactive analogue audio/video installation
The installation allows sound creation through body movement.
An array of old tube TVs (CRTs) are directly connected to an array of electronic equipment e.g., signal generators or oscillators, electronic instruments and even directly to microchip legs of running digital circuitry to inspect their internal analogue language.
The screens visualise the source electrical phenomena and emit the corresponding signals into the immediate environment as electromagnetic radiation.
The body acts as an aerial to these emissions and as it is connected a sound system, sonification occurs. The resultant sounds can range from subtle pure frequencies to abrasive rhythmic outputs dependant on source selection.
The installation has been shown in numerous UK venues as an installation for audience participation or stage performances. A few haunts include Whitechapel Gallery, Beaconsfield Gallery, Design Museum & The Foundry.
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Resin cast vinyl bootlegs
In 2009 Ian McQuaid & Nitin Lachhani registered the domain name EMIrecordings.com for the not-for-profit art projects online presence. Records were cast in resin at numerous live events where audiences brought their own LP's to be bootlegged.
Miraculously, the resultant negative copies play in reverse i.e. the stylus travels from the inside of the record to the outside edge.
Legal action in 2010 from EMI claiming trademark infringement saw the demise of the domain name. Accused of cybersquatting and trying to pass off as EMI for gain, McQuaid & Lachhani sought legal advice. It transpired that EMI's trademark remit is restricted to the field of Music therefore the project became exempt as it stands as Art. It was concluded that a potential “test case” was encountered with an undeterminable outcome. Due to the inevitable costly long-drawn-out legal conflict, the domain was transferred to EMI.
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Transmuting sound into physical objects
Three unique sounds are transmuted into physical objects through 3D Printing/Rapid Prototyping and Cymatics.
Three individual sounds which once flourished now exist as fossil's, preserved by their individual embalming processes. A form of immortalising sound.
The components convey sound's transient and ephemeral nature restrained and embodied within matter. An audible, intangible and fleeting phenomenon is transmuted into a mute and static tactile mass. From sounds objectification, its life becomes extended into a concrete form with potential to lengthen further.
Each object remains in a transitory state where some are prone to regeneration and have designated journeys which extend beyond the exhibition.
The names of the individual specimens are of three philosophers whose doctrines inform each pieces afterlife.
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Other projects
More works including photography, painting, drawings, sculpture and digital art
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