Have to share this wonderful piece of art with you guys. Made by Tristan Perich for Mikrogalleriet
300 small speakers drape the walls in linear and planar clusters, each emitting tones tuned microtonally to span distinct frequency intervals. these dense clusters of sound sources are the subject of a series of musical compositions, continuing perich’s investigations into the foundations of electronic sound. Each speaker, emitting a single, primitive 1-bit tone, becomes a microscopic voice in the total composition, substituting individual pitch for larger sonic masses.
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Interval Study #3
Soil Clock
Energy from chemical reactions run this Soil Clock by Marieke Staps, as the potato clock similarly demonstrates. Though the idea of the reaction of copper and zinc to create power, with soil as a conducive material, caught my imagination and curiosity. A DIY something to experiment with at home?
Power by reaction.
From the description of her Soil Powered Lamps:
Soil naturally contains energy conducive metals like zinc, copper and iron, and microbial fuel cells (sometimes referred to as an earth batteries) are capable of converting electrolytes in soil into usable energy. Dutch designer Marieke Strap’s Soil Lamp uses conductive plates made from copper and zinc buried within the soil to provide constant and (nearly) eternal light for an LED bulb. Maintaining a Soil Lamp is as simple as watering a plant – just feed it a splash of water every now and then to keep the energy flowing.
Electric Eel Energy
A demonstration of eel energy.
One of my favourite articles I have found in The Wonder Book of Wonders so far is that of this demonstration of a 220-volt electric lightbulb being powered by connection to the head and tail of an electric eel.