Florian Claar

1989

Striped Piano, Sensors, Elektromagnets

 

Hagenbucher Kunstraum, Heilbronn / Germany

For an exhibition in a former industrial building, 88 small electromagnetic hammers were attached to walls, windows and pipes in a large factory floor. These hammers were connected via thin copper wires to a piano from which everything but the keyboard had been removed. Visitors could play on the keyboard and experiment with the sounds inherent to the space, which sounded sometimes nearby, sometimes became a distant whisper. 

旧工場棟での展覧会では、広い工場フロアの壁や窓、パイプなどに88個の小型電磁ハンマーが取り付けられた。これらのハンマーは、細い銅線で鍵盤以外を取り外したピアノに接続されています。来場者は鍵盤を弾きながら、あるときは近くで、あるときは遠くでささやくような、その空間固有の音を試すことができる。