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Audio Art….fun fun fun…..

By knicy | April 23, 2009

So this one turned out to be the most fun of all the projects so far.  The first day we listened to see what we were missing out on by not paying attention.  We heard traffic, birds chirpping, the hum of the building, people walking through the halls, pants and shoes scuffing.  My origianl idea was to incorporate wine glasses into my project….that seemed too easy.  I decided on using wine bottles…..I would fill them with water and then hit them.  I wanted to “tune” a set of bottles to a well known song.  I next had to determine how I was going to hang each bottle.  I wanted this part to be more sculptural since my wine bottles were not.  I was sent to the scrap pile at school and started playing with plastic tubes and random metal contraptions.  Here is my original sculptural piece.

I thought that was going to work and so was not worried about it any longer.  Over the weekend I gathered 18 empty wine bottles to set up my songs.  I enlisted the help of my sister because she has a piano.  We spent around 3 hours filling, hitting and dumping wine bottles.  We created 3 songs: Twinkle Little Star, Ode To Joy, and London Bridges.  We did our best to tune each song to a set of bottles. 

Monday afternoon I headed back to my sculpture to hang bottles and make sure all was well.  I realized that the bottles were too heavy and needed to add support.  I found 3 metal poles with cement at the base.  I rigged these to my exsisting design.  I attached all by bottles and tested each set.  Success!!!!!  Ha…yeah right.  THe whole thing came crashing down…..arrggghhhh!!!!!!!  In serious frustration I removed my bottles and had to figure out how to stabilize it better.  Another instructor suggested smaller cross arches attached to my weight support poles.  Woohoo…..it was not coming down now.

Now with a sturdy sculpture I could reattach my wine bottles.  Once I started putting them on a few students came over to play with it whille I was finishing up.  I was super stoked.  Here is the finished product.

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