Art Installations, Sculpture, Contemporary Art

Sound installation from Arno Fabre - 2009. LES SOULIERS (THE SHOES) is an ensemble of thirty pairs of shoes mechanically queued by tramplers and computer-controls.

http://arnofabre.free.fr/

The Singing Ringing Tree is located at Crown point, overlooking Burnley, in Lancashire.
Completed in 2006, it is part of the series of four sculptures within the Panopticons arts and regeneration project. The project "was set up to erect a series of 21st-century landmarks, or Panopticons (structures providing a comprehensive view), across East Lancashire as symbols of the renaissance of the area.
Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, the Singing Ringing Tree is "constructed from pipes of galvanised steel, which harnesses the energy of the prevailing winds", to produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves. Some of the pipes are primarily structural and aesthetic elements, while others have been "cut across their width enabling the sound". The harmonic and "singing" qualities of the tree were produced by tuning the pipes "according to their length by adding holes to the underside of each".
In 2007, the sculpture won (along with 13 other candidates) the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for architectural excellence.

www.tonkinliu.co.uk/

Jann Rossen Queralt: "Cultivus Loci: Dropa", 2000, Evergreen House, Baltimore MD, USA

"The relationship beetween music and nature inspiredthis work. Wather courses throught a streabed on the grounds of the Evergreen Estate. Its level rises and falls as the seasons cycle. The wather sonds vibrate through yhe atmosphere, and patterns of light are reflectedon its surface. The continuous flow can be altered by a droplet, and the ripples that form, like the imagined vibrations from the music, become one with the surrounding environment. This process represents communication between the heavens and the earth, creating a place for thereflection." J-R. Q.

Detail: Pendulum (7’ x 3’ x3’) aluminum and steel

http://jannrosen-queralt.com 

Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka) - Permanent interactive installation "The Whisperers" for the Copernicus Science Centre* in Warsaw

Installation "The Whisperers" consists of 16 stainless steel columns put in the middle of the park of discovery. The columns are equipped with sensors and speakers in order to detect visitors and distribute natural sounds such as the whisper of a stream, rain, wind, volcano, etc. People can do real-time sound spatialization on the type of sound and played on the sound effects.
The visual and sound installation, compared to contemporary organs, symbolizes a virtual-real time in which we live and transports the viewer to the fourth more spiritual dimension.
The installation also shows the paradox of contemporary man desire to approach to nature by artificial means.

*The Copernicus Science Centre (in Polish: Centrum Nauki Kopernik) is a science museum standing on the bank of the Vistula River in Warsaw. It contains over 350 interactive exhibits that enable visitors to single-handedly carry out experiments and discover the laws of science for themselves. Many artworks have been installed in and around the Centre.
The Centre is the largest institution of its type in Poland and one of the most advanced in Europe.

http://www.wela-art.com/

Arnaud Fabre: "The shoes", sound installation - 2009

http://arnofabre.free.fr/

Greyworld: "Wave", kinetic artwork, Copernicus Centre in Warsaw, Poland, 2010 

http://greyworld.org/

Wela (Elisabeth Wierzbicka) - permanent interactive installation "The Whisperers", the Copernicus Science Centre, Dicovery Parc, Warsaw, 2011

Installation "The Whisperers" consists of 16 stainless steel columns put in the middle of the park of discovery. The columns are equipped with sensors and speakers in order to detect visitors and distribute natural sounds such as the whisper of a stream, rain, wind, volcano, etc. People can do real-time sound spatialization on the type of sound and played on the sound effects.
The visual and sound installation, compared to contemporary organs, symbolizes a virtual-real time in which we live and transports the viewer to the fourth more spiritual dimension.
The installation also shows the paradox of contemporary man desire to approach to nature by artificial means.

www.wela-art.com