Of The Shifted Landscapes
Interactive Installation, Work in Progress.
An InProgress temporary installation and experimentation with new this instrument were created with large-size educational school globes, and piano wire, suspended between two circular devices for fine-tuning the instrument. The wires start from one end and go through eye hook shape pins on the globes. Each pin is located on a colonized territory, country or land. In a sense, these pins act as guitar frets and give the instrument the ability to isolate octaves. The Globes also slide in a limited manner, and this also acts as a tuning act for the instrument. Each circular device has 12 pegs which allow maximum tuning ability for this instrument. The Globes are microphoned in different locations, and each can generate a sound channel that has the potential to sample different tonalities if connected to a synthesizer. What you see here is a direct connection to an amplifier and to speakers and are the natural sounds created by the instrument through picking movements.
The piece will ultimately be installed in a way each circular device is connected to the rib cage of a decommissioned Warplane .