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Touch scrren installation with motion sensor
This has been designed for an art gallery, or any space that would benefit from an ambient soundscape. While moving around looking at a gallery's pictures, the visitor will activate a motion sensor causing one of several short original compositions to play, which are interspersed with atmospheric ambient recordings. After a piece finishes, another will start when movement is again detected.
It has been created to associate sound and vision as a unified experience and create a meditative environment.
Unlike Modest Mussorgsky's famous composition, Pictures at an Exhibition, these pieces do not represent individual paintings but create atmosphere, enhancing the gallery experience.
In addition to writing the music and seeking out appropriate recordings, Bill has programmed a computer to link the motion sensor via a Bluetooth connection to loudspeakers. The software allows for easy updating with new compositions and sounds to keep the listener experience fresh and the content relevant.
Rear view showing the attached computer
It is easy to set up an operate. Once in situ, it simply needs turning on and the programme set running. The computer memory is large enough to contain hours of sounds so that the listener experience does not diminish. This unit currently includes, for example, six compositions, plus the natural soundscape recordings of birdsong - nightingale, owl, curlew – the sea, wind in trees, running water and, particularly eerie, the sound of an aeolian harp.
Two philosophers who have had significant influence on the philosophy of music are Arthur Schopenhaur (1788-1860) and Friedrich Nitzsche (1844-1900). Schopenhaur believed that music was the highest form of pure and abstract art, offering a sort of channel to a different reality that lies within, his 'will to power', the source of all life and creativity, while Nitzsche regarded music not as offering an escape from the world but as a means to embrace and enhance the experience of life, taking the listener beyond the mundane reality of our perceived world to a different dimension, that of the 'superman'.