Artscape Wychwood Barns - New Adventures in Sound Art

Obsolescence

Micheline Roi - Toronto, Canada

Sound Installation

Obsolescence — a sound installation, is a response to the ever-evolving manner in which music reaches us. Over the last century the function of the home piano has shifted from being a main source of home entertainment to becoming an ornamental antique piece, displaced by electronic keyboards and home speaker systems. Now the loudspeaker functions as the central audio interface in home entertainment but will it—in time— be superseded by the next piece of technology? In Obsolescence the roles of an antique upright piano and loudspeakers are exchanged. The loudspeaker is positioned as an antique ornament through which the voices of pianists are heard, and the piano evolves from an ornamental piece of furniture to a transducer by which other sounds are made —not by it, but on it and through it. Presented by New Adventures in Sound Art as part of SOUNDplay.

Suitable for all ages