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WHITE NOISE # 1

spotlights + sound, 2000
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Video

QuickTime Movie
02:13 min
9,0 MB

Texts

> Thomas Köllhofer: The Limits of Perception
> Alexander Tolnay: Light and Perception
> Ulmann-Matthias Hakert: Contemplation
> Moritz Wullen: 1 2 3

Info

– 18 spotlights 2,600W each
– dimmer
– 3 sinus tones (60 Hz / 60 - 70 Hz / 12,000 Hz)
– 4 loudspeakers
– 1 subwoofer
– amplifier
– triggered by a motion sensor
– electronic control
room here: L x W x H = 7.00 x 7.00 x 4.60 m

Spotlights are mounted on all four walls at eye level.
The light and the electronically generated tone are interrelated.
Four sequences alternate rhythmically:
– A very low frequency sinus tone (60 Hz) and utter darkness.
The tone thus produced makes the floor reverberate and expands upwards throughout the body.
– A very low frequency sinus tone (60 - 70 Hz) and incandescence.
– A very high frequency sinus tone (12,000 Hz) and 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
/
deep vibrating tone 
/
deep vibrating tone 
/
high sustained tone
/
hoher Dauerton
/
deep vibrating tone 
/
deep vibrating tone 
/
high sustained tone
/

light

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incandescence
/
incandescence
/
100 %
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100 %
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incandescence
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incandescence
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100 %
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time

60 s
20 s
45 s
5 s
45 s
10 s
30 s
20 s
30 s
20 s
45 s
5 s
45 s
10 s
30 s
20 s

frequency

60 Hz

60 - 70 Hz

60 - 70 Hz

12,000 Hz

12.000 Hz

60 - 70 Hz

60 - 70 Hz

12,000 Hz

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440 s = 07:20 min.
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