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TUNNEL

spotlights + sound, 2002
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Video

QuickTime Movie
02:28 min
9,2 MB

Info

– plasterboard, metal profile, paint
– 18 spotlights, 2,600W each
– dimmer
– 2 sinus tones (60 Hz / 12,000 Hz)
– 2 loudspeakers
– 1 subwoofer
– amplifier
– triggered by a motion sensor
– electronic control
Variable dimensions.
Tunnel here: L x W x H = 13.75 x 1.55 x 2.50 m

Spotlights are mounted on both walls of the tunnel just above eye level.
The light and the electronically generated tone are interrelated.
Three sequences alternate rhythmically:
– A very deep sinus tone (60 Hz) in utter darkness. The tone thus generated
makes the tunnel vibrate slightly and spreads up from the floor throughout the body.
– A very high frequency sinus tone (12,000 Hz) with glaring light and heat.
It can only be perceived in the head.
– Quiet and darkness.
The tone frequencies, which cannot be located in the room, hover on the limits of acoustic perception.

Composition / one sequence:

sinus wave

deep sustained tone
/
high sustained tone
/
high sustained tone
/

light

incandescence
/
100 %
/
100 %
/

time

12 s
8 s
12 s
8 s
24 s
12 s

frequency

60 Hz

12,000 hz

12,000 Hz

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76 s = 01:16 min.
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