Static is an installation based on the phenomenon of television static or white noise. This image can be considered as both abstract and figurative. It's difficult to claim that static is an abstract image. Because it is not an intended image. It's an artifact of a technology, a physical phenomenon. It is recognizable as what it is and culturally has a certain iconic meaning.
What is normally seen to be specific to the making of an image is materialized and becomes tactile. Every unit of the image is manipulated by hand. Something that appears spontaneously as by-product is imitated by an apparently slow and inefficient process.
Lightwaves, besides their frequency and amplitude, also have an orientation. Polarization filter only lets light pass in one such orientation. When you look through a piece of this filter, it's perfectly transparent, just a bit darker than normal plexi or glass. When you look through the filter at an other piece of this same material, rotated 90°, the second piece becomes an opaque black surface because the light passed through the first filter can't pass through the second filter. Every other orientation gives a different degree of opacity.
For Static, this material was cut into small rectangles of one cm², in random orientations – like large pixels. These little squares are put between two large rectangular pieces of plexiglass (189 x 2412 cm). The screen looks like a slightly darkened window. In the exhibition space a slowly rotating disc of the same material is also placed. When the screen is seen through this disc, it changes into a half transparent field of video noise. White noise created, purely by the manipulation of light.
Produced by de Werktank

"BZZZ! the sound of electricity" is a sound sculpture by Cécile Babiole.
Exhibition at Plateforme-Paris, June 2012

By reinventing an obsolete low-tech sound wave generator in this all-digital age, "Bzzz !" serves as a commentary on the history of technology and a tribute to unprocessed, unsampled analog sound : in a word, the raw sound of electricity.

The set : 6 micro-controlers, 6 resistors scales, 12 small PA et 24 small loudspeakers.

Video Quentin Aurat, sound recording Anton Mobin.
© Les Ondes / 2012

BEATS, BITS, ATOMS
Video was taken during ( 10-30.05 2012 ) the solo exhibition of panGenerator group in
Kordegarda Gallery which is an institution of National Center of Culture.

Installations in order of apperance:
.FLOAT - 0:11
CITY, PAINT, MACHINE ( MIASTO, FARBA, MASZYNA ) - 0:43
PEACOCK - 1:08 -> also take a look at another vid: vimeo.com/49869407
PHOJECTOR - 1:42

Project info:

.FLOAT
Aquaristics in relation to art, live organism as a database
Transposition of movement to form, bio-art and DIY culture.
◥ concept, design, development - Krzysztof Goliński

CITY, PAINT, MACHINE ( MIASTO, FARBA, MASZYNA )
Painting that paints itself. A portrait of street dynamics in Krakowskie Przedmieście
An expressionistic-mechanical abstraction.
◥ concept, design, development - Piotr Barszczewski

PEACOCK
Tripod, kinetic audiovisual installation. 2.5D mapping on moving surfaces.
Rattle for the rave generation ;) (different visuals version - vimeo.com/49869407)
◥ concept, design, engineering, development - Jakub Koźniewski
◥ sound design & programming - Krzysztof Cybulski
+ special thaks to Piotr Barszczewski ( engineering support ) & Krzysztof Goliński ( Android tablet dev )

PHOJECTOR
Hybrid of interfaces seemingly incongruent. Old cell phone and even older slide projector,
glitch, feedback and other analogue-digital phenomena
◥ concept, design, engineering, development - Krzysztof Cybulski

Video credits:
◥ footage & video editing - Jakub Koźniewski
◥ music - "This will fall apart" by Century Of Aeroplanes (wmrecordings.com/releases/wm069.htm)

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pangenerator.com/
kordegarda.org/

revitalcohen.com/project/the-immortal/

Caten . 2012
Kinetic sound installation by David Letellier
davidletellier.net

Created for the Saint Sauveur chapel in Caen, Caten is a levitating sculpture, determined by gravity and guiding the evolution of a sound composition.
300 fine wires suspended from two ropes, connected themselves at each end to a slowly rotating arm, form an evanescent surface which interacts with the architecture.
By a symbolic mirror effect, the curves of the wires, created by the gravitational force, reflect the shapes of the church arches. Caten opposes the ephemeral to the eternal, the movement to the static, and produce a tension between the lightness and the millenary stability of the space.
The sound composition is inspired by the medieval solmisation prayers, especially the first verse of "Ut Queant Laxis", also known as the "hymn to St John the Baptist", used in the eleventh century to determine the names of the notes of the scale used in latin countries.
At each turn, the engines emit one of the first 4 notes of the scale (Ut, Re, Mi, Fa), creating a sequence of intervals, constantly reconfigured. Low frequencies resonate in the space and emphazise the transcendental character of a place once dedicated to faith.
The name is derived from the term catenary, which describes the plane curve formed by a rope hanging between two points.

Caten was produced for the festival Interstice, with the support of the Station MIR.
festival-interstice.net
station-mir.com