Symphony in D Minor

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Work: ‘Symphony in D Minor’ is an interactive sound and video installation on an epic scale. A thunderstorm contained within a series of large hand cast resin sculptures, each individual form is a unique instrument hanging from the ceiling. Suspended just within reach and activated by touch, the viewer sets the symphony in motion by pushing the forms through the air to trigger the various sound elements of the storm. Sensors relay individual recordings of thunder, lightning, wind and rain with alternating intensities to a full-scale sound system. Acting as both conductor and musician, the viewer creates an evolving composition out of atmospheric sounds, forging an environment that envelops the audience. Housed within each piece are 2 video projectors employing mapping software to evenly fill the surface of the forms. Like giant illuminated pendulums each sculpture radiates video projections that in their dormant state display abstractions of water droplets and slow moving clouds. As the sensors detect movement different ranges initiate more visual elements of the storm. Once activated, the form then shifts to a swirling torrent of clouds.
Photographer: Ken Schuler
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An interactive thunderstorm of an epic scale. ‘Symphony in D Minor’ allows the viewer to compose their own thunderstorm by activating four large pendulum-like sculptures to individually control the elements of a storm: thunder, wind, rain and lightning.

Patrick Gallagher’s current work centers on the use of emerging technology and interaction. He is a video and sound installation artist working with various electronic mediums, photographic processes and the moving image. He began his career producing video compositions for electronic music events in and around NYC in 1998, creating immersive environments in the style of pop art and expressionism.
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IN AN INSTALLATION SURE TO PLEASE THOR AND JOHN CAGE ALIKE, VISITORS SPIN FOUR MASSIVE “INSTRUMENTS” TO ELICIT A CASCADE OF THUNDER, LIGHTNING, AND RAIN. Composers have been writing odes to thunderstorms for centuries: think of the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, or the 1997 track that launched Missy Elliot to fame. A new installation called Symphony in D Minor continues the tradition in Philly this month, inviting visitors to “conduct” a thunderstorm by touching a series of kinetic sculptures.

The symphony was “written” by a married duo of New York artists, Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher, who specialize in video and sound. Klapper and Gallagher started working on the project almost a year and a half ago when Eileen Tognini, a Philadelphia curator, approached them seeking a sound installation for the aptly named Skybox Gallery. Visitors to Symphony in D Minor, which opened on October 20th, are greeted by a darkened room and the sound of rain falling. Four huge cylinders hang just overhead, roughly six feet above the ground. Anyone bold enough to reach up and set one of the cylinders rolling on its 22-foot-long axle will trigger a motion sensor attached to two systems: first, a sound system, which plays one aural element of a storm (thunder and rain); and second, a digital projector, which paints the curving surface of the tube with videos of water, clouds, and lightning that react to the intensity of the storm. Each cylinder has its own set of sounds and images, so collaboration with other visitors is key. “Interactivity is a medium in and of itself,” say Klapper and Gallagher. “Symphony in D Minor uses state of the art motion sensors to turn the positions of each piece into data streams. This data is processed through a software program specifically designed to trigger audio elements and affect the duration of video playback.”

The cylinders themselves are worthy of description. Each is made from a wide swatch of fiberglass cast in resin, creating reflective organic patterns “inspired by the rolling horizontal columns of Altocumulus and Arcus cloud formations,” explain the duo. The texture gives the video projections–beautiful in their own right–an eerie dimensionality. After a roiling crescendo, the 40-minute-long symphony eventually quiets down and begins again. Aleatoric music, in which certain elements of a performance are left to random chance, has a long history. John Cage was a major originator of the genre, producing works like HPSCHD (Harpsichord, sans a few letters), which randomly processed some of the most-played classical harpsichord sonatas into bizarre, dissonant compositions. HPSCHD has more in common with Symphony in D Minor than the use of chance, though. When Cage premiered the piece in 1969, the audience was invited to get up and explore the space, where images from NASA were projected onto a massive rotating screen–a larger version of the ones hanging in Skybox Gallery this month.

But unlike HPSCHD, Symphony in D Minor actually lets the audience participate, encouraging visitors to self-organize to manipulate the system. Cage’s piece was about using early computer processing to make music. This symphony is of the crowdsourcing era, where computer processing is only an armature, enabling a mob of musicians to collaborate.
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Gracias a la tecnología en general se pueden crear efectos especiales alucinantes. Muchas veces hemos oído que en las películas se producen los sonidos de los truenos agitando unas láminas o con otros objetos que poco tienen que ver con una tormenta. Sin embargo, hay formas mucho más artísticas de crear esa tormenta perfecta, o al menos, emular su sonido. Y una de ellas es Symphony in D Minor. Este proyecto, realizado por Chris Klapper y Patrick Gallagher es una instalación interactiva formada por una serie de esculturas cinéticas donde el usuario puede experimentar cómo es el entorno cambiante de las tormentas ya sea por el color de la escultura como por su sonido. Me ha parecido una instalación buenísima no sólo por el factor abstracto y su gran tamaño, sino porque el componente interactivo que tiene hace que sea una obra que multiplica los sentidos del observador.
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source: escritoriodearterio

Criada pelos artistas Chris Klapper e Patrick Gallagher, a obra interativa Symphony in D Minor consiste em uma série de esculturas cinéticas, onde pode-se produzir sons e diferentes elementos de uma tempestade. A principal inspiração dos artistas são as nuvens arcus, formações que aparecem em grandes tempestades de raios. Os quatro tubos que compõem a instalação têm aproximadamente 6 metros por 1 metro e meio e são suspensos no ar, para que se movam empurrados pelas pessoas, dando origem aos potentes sons de trovões, vento e chuva. Assista ao efeito impressionante da obra no vídeo a seguir:
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Decía Oscar Wilde, en La decadencia de la mentira, que el arte nos hace amar aún más la naturaleza porque nos revela sus secretos y descubrimos en ella cosas que se escapan a nuestra observación. La misión del arte es revelarnos que la naturaleza no tiene plan, su monotonía y su tosquedad, pues aunque ésta “tiene buenas intenciones”, no puede llevarlas a cabo, decía Aristóteles, y entonces resulta imperfecta en sus paisajes, fenómenos y manifestaciones. “Es una suerte para nosotros que la naturaleza sea tan imperfecta, ya que en otro caso no existiría el arte”.
Wilde decía estas palabras en 1889 en uno de sus escritos de crítica estética y parecieran no perder vigencia cuando se mira una tormenta en un espacio cerrado.Una instalación interactiva que involucra escultura, sonido y video, recrea una tormenta eléctrica como una manera de retar a la naturaleza frente a sus propios alcances. Sinfonía en re menor, de Patrick Gallagher y Chris Klapper, es, quizás, el esfuerzo de los artistas por demostrarle a la naturaleza su conducta imperfecta, por su facilidad de imitación.Cuatro esculturas cilíndricas elaboradas con resina, cuelgan como péndulos en un espacio cerrado; cada una contiene dos proyectores de video que proveen de imágenes a las formas. A simple vista son cuatro enormes lámparas, colgando a 40 metros de altura, que proyectan imágenes de nubes y agua en apacible estado. Una vez que los sensores de la instalación detectan movimiento, causado por la presencia del espectador, comienza una tormenta a cuatro paredes: el cielo se oscurece, proyecciones de lluvia y carga eléctrica visten el espacio y, cuando los visitantes tocan los cilindros, el ruido de la tormenta se intensifica y las nubes se arremolinan en una perfecta recreación de este fenómeno meteorológico.Cada cilindro es un instrumento que reproduce un sonido particular de la tormenta: el chasquido de un rayo, el bajo rodar del trueno, hojas en cascada como la lluvia y el aullido del viento; todo bajo la mano omnipotente del espectador.Sinfonía en re menor estuvo presente en la galería de Skybox, en Philadelphia, los últimos meses del año pasado.
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Kini pengalaman merasakan badai dapat dirasakan di dalam gedung. Adalah seniman chris Klapper dan Patrick Gallagher yang telah membuat sebuah replika badai yang menakjubkan. ‘simfoni dalam d minor’ adalah audio interaktif dan instalasi video yang dipakai dalam karya seni badai ini. Proyek ini ditandai dengan badai yang terkandung dalam karya yang berbentuk silinder yang memiliki panjang 40 kaki dan digantung dengan ketinggian sekitar 4 meter. Alat badai ini bisa diaktifkan dengan sentuhan tangan. Penampil simfoni guntur – hiruk-pikuk suara angin, hujan dan petir-yang merambat memberikan suasa yang menegangkan. Pendulum silinder raksasa ini diterangi oleh proyeksi video yang di abstraksi aktif sehingga bisa menampilkan tetesan air dan nebuli yang bergerak lambat. Karya berskala besar ini dibuat dengan menggunakan resin cor, baja, suara dan gambar bergerak untuk membuat keadaan yang bersesuaian dengan badai sesungguhnya, dengan komposisi musik aleatoric semakin memberikan suara yang menggelegar seperti guntur dan petir.