(hu)Man In A Wave arises from the idea that our bodies are always surrounded by (audio) waves. Waves that reflect and permeate our body.
In this way, we can say that the (audio) waves reflects and surrounds our bodies. (Audio) waves that are a neglected part of our culture. They are around us, we are in them, surrounded but not trapped.
Medical treatments also use radio frequency in RF (Radio frequency) and MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) uses radio frequency waves to generate images of the human body.
With this work, I put our body into the visualisation of the audio wave itself. An audio wave that is pure and then becomes mixed.
We become human audio filters,
with our body silhouettes we absorb,
‘distort’ the audio waves and radiations.
This audio wave is then mixed with the audio wave generated from the image of the visitors’ silhouettes.
This sound, pure and raw, all and nothing, designed by the visitor(s)/performer(s)’ body shape and movement.
This installation is a kind of state “in between”, mixing and filtering, “audio hacking” and broadcasting the newly created audio through speakers back into the “infinite” space around us. (Isn’t our body the finite counterpart of the infinite?)
An interactive (audio) station, broadcasting the shape and movement of visitors’ body silhouettes, from one place to another, to different places, “in the Ether”, everywhere.
Audio (and radio) waves transcend cultural boundaries, permeate our bodies, a collective sound installation.
(hu)Man in a Wave
Examples with screenshots, at the top the filtered camera image of possible visitors, at the bottom the generated audio wave, with when you play it, the sound clips that bring the audio wave back in between the air and the space:
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