'Variables' Sketch 2 (2018)
This is the second sketch of a sound installation that translates the continuous up and down movement of the tides around the docks in Liverpool into sound. This is achieved through the use of an Arduino encoded with the data of the tide table in Liverpool.
Mixed media: sonometer instrument, arduino uno, servo motor, speaker, tape.
above: details of the installation - servo motors on brackets
In order to play the sound of the tides I have used two servo motors mounted on the sonometer, an instrument usually employed in acoustic investigation.
It consist of one or two strings stretched over a resonator of wood. The sonometer is an instrument with interesting sound and aesthetic qualities, perfet for the experiment with the tides.
A special thanks goes to DoES Liverpool team for offering their space and time and especially to Zarino Zappia for his passion and support in encoding the Arduino.
It consist of one or two strings stretched over a resonator of wood. The sonometer is an instrument with interesting sound and aesthetic qualities, perfet for the experiment with the tides.
A special thanks goes to DoES Liverpool team for offering their space and time and especially to Zarino Zappia for his passion and support in encoding the Arduino.
above: front view of the installation in the X gallery at LJMU
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'Focusing on different spaces'(2018)at ERL gallery LJMU
Mixed Media; turntable, amplifier, video projectors, modified vinyl records
above: Images of the installation
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'Test' - The programme of trial and error taking chances for
Independents Biennial 2018
'Test!' a free laboratory where artists and performers can try out new work in front of a supportive live audience, take risks and push the boundaries of their practice and performance.
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'Jugglers'(2018) - at Liverpool IB18
Jugglers is a kinetic sculpture and was created to play with the possibility of a movement balancing an object in space.
It consists of an elegant pair of motorised structures delicately balancing two plastic drinking cups, whose carefully synchronised movement resonates to fill the space with the distinctive sound produced by the sculpture itself.
It consists of an elegant pair of motorised structures delicately balancing two plastic drinking cups, whose carefully synchronised movement resonates to fill the space with the distinctive sound produced by the sculpture itself.
Mixed Media; Wood stand, electric motor, metal wire, plastic glass.
Size; H: 2 metre W: 15mm D: 15mm
This piece is effectively a conversation between two non-human entities, a non-verbal dialogue taking place between automata. It is a piece that plays with the theatrical potentiality of objects to perform a drama without human characters.
images above:details of the installation - visitors experiencing the work.
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Material Matters Act 1 (2018) at The Well Studio Gallery
Material Matters is an artists’ collective in Liverpool, UK founded 2018.The focus of the group’s curation is the creative process of recycling and re-interpretation. By breathing new life into found objects, raw media and discarded materials we develop new forms of artistic practice, both collectively and individually. Our work is expressed as a curated series of exhibitions divided into Acts, and an experimental programme of individual reflections named Test!
above: poster of the exhibititon
below: artwork exhibited in the show ACT1
below: artwork exhibited in the show ACT1
'RE-FRAME'; Treasuring What is Left Behind(2018)
The photographic work Chair and X - CNC bed with wood dust - that Angelo Madonna is presenting in this exhibition, is a documentation of the manufacture of a chair and a small stool. The photographs were taken as soon as the machine stopped and components were removed from the bed. The artist managed to document the complex texture of the materials that lay on top the bed surface. What he captures with the camera is what is left behind on the sacrificial bed of the machine, a material that lasts for a very short time before the artist wipe the bed entirely clean again.
Title: Chair and X
Media: photographs on archive paper, paper clips
Above: Chair and X remarks a vital phase in the development of the artist work that at this point in time has transcended the boundaries of the process of making an object and start to explore a new territory.
Metaphorically, those dunes of dust sitting on the bed of the CNC machine seem to recall scenes from the desert, traces of the hot wind of such landscapes or images taken from the surface of the moon, its craters with their remarkable emerging shapes.
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