Multimedia installation. Multichannel Textile Sound System
Technical textile, CuNi galvanized textile, aluminum profiles, perforated aluminum sheets, class D amplifiers, aggregated sound cards, neodymium magnets, custom soft to hard cabeling, custom electronics
Technical textile, CuNi galvanized textile, aluminum profiles, perforated aluminum sheets, class D amplifiers, aggregated sound cards, neodymium magnets, custom soft to hard cabeling, custom electronics
23rd Japan Media Arts Award https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/award/previous/23rd/art/
Sound as an informational source is described in terms of auditory attributes, such as timbre, tone, pitch, duration, loudness. These characteristics are analyzed and give relevance to the delivery of musical meaning. But sound is not only about deduced meaning. It is about physical energy shared. Sound as a vibrational force links humans bodies and matter at a material level, via physical resonation. Human beings perceive sound, either when it is heard by entering the ear canal or when corporeally experienced. It is on and in our body that acoustic waves become discernible.
Phase In, Phase Out is the result of an art-based study on the crossmodal, employing sound, textile and space as one unified medium. By augmenting textile into a multi channel electroacoustic transducer, EJTECH explores the “alogogenic” properties of sound via the unique timbre of textile, through sound pieces or “electronic poems” specifically written for, and performed on a purely textile-sound system. Patterns of high, mid and low range frequency tones sweep across the textile pieces, creating sound and resonating in the physical space. Phase In, Phase Out deals with the audio-physical experience of space and matter which are determined in form and content by controlled movements of the textile. The raw manifestation of sound, and its vibrational force amount to a polysensorial experience and an exercise in liminality.
Phase In, Phase Out is the result of an art-based study on the crossmodal, employing sound, textile and space as one unified medium. By augmenting textile into a multi channel electroacoustic transducer, EJTECH explores the “alogogenic” properties of sound via the unique timbre of textile, through sound pieces or “electronic poems” specifically written for, and performed on a purely textile-sound system. Patterns of high, mid and low range frequency tones sweep across the textile pieces, creating sound and resonating in the physical space. Phase In, Phase Out deals with the audio-physical experience of space and matter which are determined in form and content by controlled movements of the textile. The raw manifestation of sound, and its vibrational force amount to a polysensorial experience and an exercise in liminality.
Awards:
23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Selection, 2020
Decode Award, BORD Architectural Studio, 2020 Hungarian Design Award, by Hungarian Design Council, 2019
Exhibitions / Performances:
Contextile Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, PT, 2022
FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, Hypersonica, São Paolo, BR, 2022
IN-SONORA, 12th International Showing of Sound and Interactive Art, Madrid, ES, 2022
EMAF - European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE, 2020
Faur Zsofi Gallery, Budapest, HU, 2020
Sensorium Festival, Bratislava, SK, 2019
Horizont Gallery, Budapest, HU, 2018
23rd Japan Media Arts Festival, Jury Selection, 2020
Decode Award, BORD Architectural Studio, 2020 Hungarian Design Award, by Hungarian Design Council, 2019
Exhibitions / Performances:
Contextile Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, PT, 2022
FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, Hypersonica, São Paolo, BR, 2022
IN-SONORA, 12th International Showing of Sound and Interactive Art, Madrid, ES, 2022
EMAF - European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE, 2020
Faur Zsofi Gallery, Budapest, HU, 2020
Sensorium Festival, Bratislava, SK, 2019
Horizont Gallery, Budapest, HU, 2018
Citations:
O'Nascimento, Ricardo. 2020. Roupas Inteligentes: Combinando Moda e Tecnologia. Editora Senac São Paulo, p. 262. ISBN 9788539631704.
23rd Japan Media Arts Festival. https://catalog.j-mediaarts.jp/multi/reader/speed.html?cid=023_JMAF
European Media Art Festival 2020 No.33 First Person Plural. Katrin Mundt, Hermann Nöring, Alfred Rotert, M&E Druckhaus, Osnabrück, ISBN 978-3-926501-42-4, 2020.
FILE electronic language international festival SÃO PAULO 2022 – SUPERCREATIVITY. HYPERSONICA. https://file.org.br/book/file-sao-paulo-2022/
Credits:
Research and experiments essential to the realization of the installation were carried out within the framework of Judit Eszter Karpati’s PhD research project “Soft Interfaces - Crossmodal Textile Interactions” at the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest.
Research and experiments essential to the realization of the installation were carried out within the framework of Judit Eszter Karpati’s PhD research project “Soft Interfaces - Crossmodal Textile Interactions” at the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest.
Photography: David Biro