Darkness and metallic sounds reign in the RIXC gallery. At first they are just noises, but then they develop into a structured composition. Creating the illusion of a mysterious but full of life world. Operating a self-constructed device, Finnish artist Marko Timlin creates it in performance.
“Please don’t listen to this concert as music,” he insists. “I always say this to the audience before the event. We all have habits of listening to music, but I want to impress with something else, with a natural phenomenon. The idea of tonight’s event is this – try to put your ears in the atom. You will hear how the electrons move around the nucleus. Do try to hear the Earth’s tectonic plates collide.”
A combination of ultrasonic sensors, solar panels, infrared sensors and microcontrollers in the device created by the artist receives information from the physical world – for example, light rays. Then these pulses are transmitted to a computer where the sound is generated. The artist calls it “pure digital music”: “This contact allows me to create and create a kind of sound during sculptures. Imagine it as clay. Only from sound. I make one form, then the next. But when they are ready, I look for another , to continue the movement.
The particular sound-making device was created by Marco Timlin during the RIXC Arts and Sciences Residency. The artist has been engaged in composition research since 2006. His works have been on view in the RIXC gallery for two weeks now – four panels with rhythmically sounding thirty-year-old computer diskette readers. The name of the exhibition is “Bits and Bytes”.
“You can use old technology in an old way and new technology in a new one. But you can also use new technology in an old way and old in a new way. Then it gets interesting.
Because when we find such a link between new technology and time, something unprecedented and timeless always emerges,” says the artist.
The sounds of Marco Timlin’s natural phenomenon have been heard, but the exhibition “Bees and Bytes” will still be on view at the RIXC gallery until February 3 next year.
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2023-12-17 09:07:31
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