The instrument promotes the Fischer arrangement (chess 960), thanks to the element of accident providing a variety of developments of the game and, accordingly, possible melodic moves.
The instrument is dedicated to the senior inspector of "Medical Hermeneutics" Vladimir Fedorov, who proposed translating the text of a chess game into a musical score.
wood, acrylic, plexiglass, polymer clay, magnets, arduino, raspberry pi, pure data
Technical engineer: Alexander Bedin
I started recording our quarrels on a dictaphone at first to let him listen, waiting for an insight. then I recorded them for myself - to think about later. but I didn’t listen to the recordings again for years, until I decided to leave.
he hit me in the face, slammed my head against the wall. I defended myself and kicked a couple of his teeth out. afterwards, I documented the beatings in the hospital, and he said, “I know you liked it too.”
it’s easy to find yourself in a cycle of violence without having a clear idea of the norm.
from old nightstands are heard scraps of insults, blows, my sobs, children's cries, shards of glass sparkle on the floor, in the closet are stored what was filled with love for me - my poems and our song. it’s all over, and I’m no longer in this room.
Stones also contain matter, connecting the past with the future. Touching a stone is an immersion in history, an attempt at non-human communication, and for some, contact with the supernatural. If we need to provide everything around us with soul for democracy and equality, let the stone have one too. Let the stone have a voice.
found stones, microphones, sound amplification
The work uses voice cloning technology. During 60 seconds of interaction with the object, the viewer's voice goes through analysis, cloning and synthesis, and then the answer is played in the headphones.
At the moment of the answer, an image from a webcam is shown on the screen, which records fragments of the speaker's speech.
Everyone who decides to let their voice sound receives an answer from themselves.
- program code
- microphone
- headphones
- webcam
This tool is an attempt to hear chess logic, using traditional modal-harmonic thinking as a basis. Recommended for playing Fischer chess.
- arduino mega
- max msp
- reed switches
The first experience of collaboration with a robot is an attempt to find a common language, to establish communication. I chose the language of music and made instruments from the objects found in the non-ferrous metal, hanging them on ribbons from nylon tights. The blows of the robotic arm against the elastic metal bodies, springing on the elastic matter that once belonged to man, remind me of meditation for robots in a world that has survived a man-made disaster.
Special thanks to Light Your Mind company — for the opportunity to cooperate, training and support
UR10 robotic arm, found metal objects, nylon tights
Programming is dictated by meaningful names of objects. In working on the sounds, I used field recordings and developments from my Cricket Prepared project, ice cracking in the Gulf of Finland and a child's voice.
According to my idea, being in the room was supposed to create the effect of looking through a magnifying glass, when crisp ice scatters into streams of cold spray, building dynamic spaces in which the insect's calling signal is transformed into a pedal of an inhuman choir.