“SOUND FURNITURE”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zhcSl8aGwok

Instalação “SOUND FURNITURE” (2023)

(trabalho conjunto com Gilvano Dalagna, Paulo Bernardino Bastos e Jorge Salgado);

Abstract: Sound furniture is an art installation that emerges as a response to a current problem affecting artistic production in different fields of the so-called living arts: the public’s involvement is passive and usually restricted to the manipulation of materials and uncritical interaction with a given stimulus. Sound furniture transforms the various objects and places in a house into sound stimuli that invite the public to create content from interacting with them.
The novelty of this project lies in the changing status of the spectators; i.e. from a passive or interactive agent to a creative and responsible one. Unlike other creative experiments in the field of interactive art, Sound furniture confronts the spectators with everyday life situations beyond the art venue, stimulating the creation and recreation of perceptions of lived experiences.
The project uses an open hardware Arduino Uno board and several sensors. It allows to create real time electronic sound waves through the interaction of the public when using the furniture: a bed and a desk.

Keywords: Interaction, Media Art, Sound Art, furniture, performance.