reSite, Sight and Sound
SoundCulture 96: Falkirk Cultural Center
Installation by Dan Senn

The installation of 4 pendulum instruments, 4 monochrome videos, and a 3-cluster of color video monitors. The instruments consist of 2 tuned pendulings, a tuned 
pendulyre, and a linglyre. The pendulums for each is driven by 4 speaker-pumps carrying subaudio frequencies. Each monochrome monitor is paired with an i
nstrument and carries the stories of 9 people recounting life and work at an isolated limestone cave and dance hall called "The Catacombs of Yucatan" in the 
1930s. The videos are intermittent, fade to white (also acting as a light source) and contrast the pitched and unpitched clatter of the instruments. The cluster 
of color videos consists of a 27-inch monitor on the bottom and two 13-inch monitors on top which are turned on axis and simultaneously broadcast the same 
"percussive video".






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