Scattered Rotations evokes a body suspended within a perpetual overabundance of disjunctive signals in light and sound. The mirrorball 'dances' in response to external signals, but never towards any kind of regular cyclical motion.
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Like a phonograph starting up from zero speed but failing to rotate for long enough to complete a verse, phrase, or song, the sound follows its motion, reproducing the sound according to its fractured timeline.
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Simultaneously generating and responding to motion, light and sound, Scattered Rotations produces an inescapable loop wherein the object becomes both the sender and receiver of warped transmissions that constantly transform but never terminate. At its state of potential rest, it is repeatedly impelled to continue this endless cycle of broadcast and reception.
The pendulously flung mirrorball bends the light and sound around it, while microphone, light, and orientation sensors register this scattered motion and perpetuate its tangled loop. The interplay which emerges from the disparate elements integrated in Scattered Rotations constitutes a system collapsed into a state of fractured disconnection.
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50cm mirrorball, elastic band, microphone, custom audio programming and electronics, high-power servomotors, light sensors, accelerometer, 'disco' samples, sound system, scaffold.
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Originally presented in 13 channel sound at Call & Response, London, UK 2017.
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