intrinsic is a site dependent audio and light installation, exploring minimal sound and audio perception through a slowly changing aural landscape. Sine waves are played through a loudspeaker, their frequencies correlate to the dimensions of the space and create standing waves or room modes; a shifting landscape of peaks and dips in loudness.
It has been such a lovely and valuable experience being allowed to install the work at SARC. I was assisted by two wonderful technicians and sound engineers Chris Corrigan and Una Monaghan. They were really patient with me, in fact I kept them waiting while I calibrate the piece till 11.30 pm that night. Many thanks to them.
The space is the basement of SARC. It is minimal, total blackout with curtains covering the walls of which they are also hiding floor boards and etc. The cement floor gave a subtle reflection to the luminance from the tubes and when they flicker, a cross-like shapes flicker on the floor. The space was just ideal for this piece and I am so grateful to have been able to install it in the best possible way to reach its potential.
The audience was a mix bunch, mostly students from SARC. They entered the space in playfulness, they began to play with the lights and there was a sense of wonder and curiosity to what the tubes mean. People were moving and makings loads of noise, interacting with the light tubes. These soon stopped when they realized that there were sounds coming from the loudspeaker that turned off the tubes. The atmosphere shifted suddenly to sudden quietness and concentration. It was lovely to witness that too.
Just to let you know as well, when I got back to york, I took a bus back to the university. When the bus conductor came around, I realized I didn’t have enough change. Full of panic, luckily, a lovely fellow student (physics student apparently) came to my rescue and gave me 50p to meet the shortage. She said that a few days ago, someone has helped her in the same way and that she is just passing it on. My faith in the goodness of men was replenished and I promised her I would do the same someday.
Have been searching the web for a review on intrinsic at SARC, Belfast. This is what I found, apologies for the Google translation. His description of the response of the viewers were pretty accurate (original link, look below).
Then we went to the basement for installation of Angie Atmadjaja, consisting of neon tubes suspended and broadcast sound waves through speakers with a frequency unusual. The event, in this installation, was the reaction of the audience. At the beginning, we felt that the handful of spectators present were familiar with the art scene, and he knew how to behave. They walked, they touched the neon lights, they did what was expected of them. Then they all stopped moving. It was very impressive, one would have thought they were all actors and I was the only spectator: twenty or twenty-five people motionless for a minute. Gradually they fall on the edge of space and installation / performance ended only with the neon lights and strange sounds that seemed to get out.
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