LaMeNN
Sound Sculpture-Installation (computer + microphone + sensor + water + sound system).
Work composed by a structure of metal pipes and water tanks in Conduct That cycles. This metal container structure has a microphone for Issuing That is dripping water sounds processed in real time. The structure is Conceived as an organism That Feeds on Itself and produce a power amplifier circuit and transforms That sounds from Its Own concrete structure.
Introduction
his work is conceived from the custom-made Digital Cultural Platform for participation in the exhibition.
Tesla to be held at Fundación Telefónicabetween December 2008 and January 2009 .
This immediately raises a work from the stage of pregestión continuing along what is fundamental in the work of Lame laboratory; the process.
There from the beginning ethical-political problems of working for a multinational that does not represent anything, even more, goes against the moral expressed over months of production in Lame however this is a chance event helps to articulate a purpose force.
PROTOTIPE.
The domain of research and work of Lame is the use and handling of artifacts, computers, synthesizers technological archeology, scrap metal and piping, devices with some degree of use and years tered back into a creative context to be used as working tools effectively, this is what happens in the events of the play Lame NN where these older machines or with a certain past are the fundamental substrate in helping our work in contention. Therefore LaMeN.N was a process that ended up being translated into an interactive sculpture that represents a lame iron in this inhospitable environment, controlled, distant, completely different circuit device that aims to assimilate Lame as part of his work. This is how we identified the great potential in this platform to showcase and publicize a clear way the media use licks does represent the world of its own.
Development
Once the concerns raised and identified the problem of "present" a work in a place that represents per se a contradiction decided to take this to our advantage. Established that the retro look of a bathroom, to be precise a "john", consisting of materiality "clumsy" or "practice" would play the role required to represent our vision of the world in relation to technology and how to relate to energy, transmutation and energy transduction in the form of information-energy materials.
Thus LaMeN.N. utilitarianism puts a strain on technology, opposes and giving resistance to the advanced tools that seek to be part of the work of contemporary media art, white and clean, effective and without hesitation, out of touch with a real poetic frivolous utility, intended to measure the creative artistic advancement of software royalties and high-tech machines to carry out works medial. NN Lame tangentially to it reverses this process to develop and benefit by using the technological background than the forefront, seemingly useless and futile for the work of media art.
LaMeN.N operates considering the abuse that is generated from the ineptitude brought the pyrotechnics of the "new media" and transform this utilitarian in artistic creation. Is a work that is destined to a user unknown, unnamed, NN It is an orgy of metal, water and electricity. Means that are not compatible, electric oxide, corrosion.
In an erotic act that is shared with a stranger licks the stranger, they disagree on the institutions, the transnational to the same figure as we get into it and leaving a jumble of character and resolution in these terms is LaMe . It is part of the motivation to seek creative means we face, even within the waste or what is not obvious to create medially to generate work.
ISOMETRICS (by Tomas Elgueta)
Front view
Cenit view
We believe that the reverse, ie, to generate work from technology paradigms generates only aesthetic in nature. LaMeNN put into this crisis situation and for us flawed that advocates the replacement technique in poetry. LaMeNN attempts to demonstrate that the form of work for development works in the context of ICTs can only reach a successful conclusion through the trusses and nodes generation (gains as a result of interactions in flow, circuits, networks) among people linked to management, art, science and technology. Lame aesthetically LaMeNN represents the convergence of skills, motivation, poetry and interest (video, sound art, programming, engineering, sculpture). Still presents a particular vision each of us..
About technical issue
The technical resources used for the construction of LaMeNN were divided into two specific parts Hardware and Software. In the situation of hardware basically started with the modeling of the base structure which is built with materials used for construction of water courses (pipes, elbows, water taps, etc.) tinplate as a containers, a tilt sensor and a water pump, generating all hydraulic system self-sustaining.
For the operation of this circuit 5 factors were predominant;
- Determine the strength of the pump to raise water to 3m in height.
To determine water elevation with a 0.5 hp pump peripheral clearance would come up with some water without destabilizing the structure.
- Arrange the pipes so the water cycle is not interrupted and is uni-directional.
The main pipes dispucieron as the triad based on the Bernoulli and the theory of communicating vessels. Valves were placed is specific points to prevent the water to recede.
- Establish a sensor to activate and deactivate the pump.
For this we use a level switch (control of vertical electro-dub) 3 m. This is a float with Tilt sensor that works optionally in a position to float or bumping the bottom of a pond. For this reason we use it with activating position to be empty and just stopping in to be completely full.
- Transduce the sound produced by analog to digital sound drops./li>
- To determine the detection means positioning of users in relation to the work for activation./li>
To address both points, which is generally transduction from the analogue world (circuit pipes, container) to digital (computer), it was the sound information received by piezoelectric sensors and a fixed camera that traced and interpreted the movement of the viewer . This was accomplished specialized wiring connecting to two computers, a Pentium 4, 2000 hp mhz. 1gb ram and a Pentium 3 500 mhz. 500 mb ram, networked to receive data. using an audio card M-AUDIO Delta 66 and audio outputs to send data to the facility in the form of quadraphonic sound.
The sound produced by dripping captured by sensors placed on the "john" modulated volume, pitch and panning at the time the public was coming into the quadrant of motion capture camera, producing audio spectrum variations drip from the original digital synthesis of various magnitudes, amplitudes and envelopes. We used the computers of the work on open source software Pure Data (or Pd) which is a modular programming language developed during the 90's to create music interactive computer and works multimedia. Grosso modo there were two types of programs (patches) for a NN Lame sound transduction and a motion trackeo.
Structure components.
- 25 meters of galvanized iron pipes of a inch.
- Pentium 4 de 2000 mhz. 1gb ram.
- Pentium 3 de 500 mhz. 500 mb ram.
- 6 Piezo Film Vibra Tab Mass.
- 18 rca conector.
- Speaker cable 2x18 r/n 5.2mm i20c12.
- Audio card M-AUDIO delta 66 .
- 4 monitors Studiophile AV 20 speakers M-AUDIO.
- 7 galvanized iron pipes 150x6,00 mts. 1 ".
- 1 tapa gorro hi 1".
- 40 codos hi 1".
- 5 unión americana 1".
- 1 valve "bola" 1".
- 1 retention valva.
- 1 level interruptor (control vertical pum) 3 m.
- 1 "pomo de pasta gasfiter".
- 1 kilo fat.
- 6 "despiches" (pipes and nuts (12)).
- "Estopa".
- 1 kilo solder.
- 1 bperiferic pulp 0,5 hp + pm - 60 humboldt.
- 2 perfil 25x25x1,5.
- 1 piron plate of 2 mm.
- 3 "tiras de ángulo" 30x20.
- 1 tin plate1,5 mm.
- Electrical cables and other electrical supplies.
