Hyun Jean Lee
Seoul. R.O.Korea
www.hyunjeanlee.com
http://vimeo.com/100992347

Project: The Breathe of the Sea 

The sound installation work < The Breath of the Sea > is initiated with my 
experience that I had encountered long time ago. That is one that I 
happened to look at the situation of microphone which is connected its 
end to a portable speaker for outdoor events was kept in moving 
back and forth from the speaker on the long line like as a pendulum 
movement. While looking at this situation, I could also hear that a noise 
between the input(microphone) and output(speaker) of closed feedback 
system created from this movement. And I thought immediately that it 
sounds like sounds of the wave movement in the sea. After this experience,
 for a while, I have conceived how to create the scene that the only sounds 
of the sea waves are fulfilling the empty space. If it were visualized, there
 is a speaker on the room floor and the microphone hanged under the 
ceiling moving like a pendulum. 
This work is the embodiment of this imagination and it conveys the
 concept that how electrical and electronical feedback can be matched 
and linked to the feedback in the nature (I think the wave movement is 
the interaction between wind and water, as well as one of the feedback 
between the tides such as ebb and flood). The machinery pendulum 
repeats its motor movement between left and right. Depending on the 
movement of each pendulum, the current state of each one’s interval
 time(speed), directional change and locative position (left, right & in the 
middle position or each ends of the pendulum’s arc orbit) of the
 pendulum are delivered to the computer running Max/MSP via Arduino 
creating a pure machine-generating pink noise. However this noise can 
create the very sound of ocean wave movement sound. The machine-
making 
sound are transformed to the very sound in the nature in front of our ears. 
The wave sounds are repeated. It is newly and continuously generated and 
come, and shattered and left again.
Fulfilling the sound of wave in the empty gallery space, this work suggests
 the audience to think of how the breath of the machine can take after the 
breath of the nature. 
technicaldates: This work is across the following categories: the Software 
art, Generative art, Robotic, Data Visualization & Mapping, and sound 
installation.
3 sets of pendulum set. Each set is controlled via Arduino, and the 
actuator is a AC motor and each pendulum has a Super bright LED on its 
end of pendulum bar. 

tag: softwareart