Kilohertz Extrusion
Jean Arp (1887–1966) on technology:
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Arp talks about the detrimental effects of persistent and invasive noise, suggesting it dehumanises us. Instead of taking this negative view of what our saturated sonic spectrum removes, I wanted to explore what it creates. I recorded sounds which fit Arp's description and used them to create a sculpture. Spectrograms were plotted, and then extruded along the z-axis depending on how saturated the sound was at specific frequencies.
Dimensions: 175mm × 350mm, 2 × A2 posters
