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click images below for slideshow Spectral Analyisis 2012 - Electrostatic speakers, UV curable ink, soundtrack, acoustic foam. 1220mm x 1220mm A colour photograph taken by the artist of Samye monastery (the oldest Buddhist monastery in Tibet) was subject to two forms of spectral analysis. The colour photograph was first scanned vertically and horizontally using spectral analysis software to convert its colours and tones into sound. Secondly, the image was broken down into the constituent colour separations used in CMYK printing. The four colour separations were then printed onto separate electrostatic speakers (each 550 x 550 x 3mm). Electrostatic speakers emit sound directionally from their entire surface and project sound in a detailed and uncanny way. They also 'phase cancel' to silence at their side edges. In the exhibition The Voyeur, the sound was directed across the gallery space toward the Enochian Sound Reflectors. The ghostly sound emanating from the speakers' surface formed part of an overall soundtrack to the exhibition. Installation photos by Nigel Green. See other works exhibited in The Voyeur |
