Daniel Palacios’s Waves installation creates a beautiful explanation of how sound inhabits space, how the “chaos of infinite variables” that create noise might influence the sinusoidal waves conducted between two turbines connected by a length of rope. The installation, Visualizing Sound at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial until in Spain is affected by those who watch it; when the audience moves it influences the compressions and decompressions of the rope’s line. This return channel from a physical act into a graphic representation cuts through space with its own swooshing sound, further examining how we interpret our own position in a sonic landscape.
Click the pic to see a vid of how it works.