On Friday I went along to Gasworks at the moment they have an exhibition of south London based artist and musician Felix Thorn. He creates these crazy magical musical machines from a broken up pianos, glockenspiel, drum kits, animated by solenoids springs and motors when connected to his computer. Each element of the machine has its own LED which light up when in use in the various compositions.
The machine in performance is mesmerizing so many parts emitting sound and light. Created as a way of visualizing the rhythmic structures in the music. ‘People are use to human performances, the machines remind the listen that the satisfaction received from music can happen without the intervention of a human performer’
The machines are continuously evolving ‘the early badly measured parts can be seen next to the newer, better-constructed components. The whole process is on show, which I suppose, indicates what I have learned since the beginning of the project.’
Gasworks: www.gasworks.org.uk
Some text taken from interview with Felix Thorn off the Gasworks website
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