/ soundy I / The Shadow(y) Needs No Bones, 2023
“The Shadow(y) Needs No Bones” 2023
Sound sculpture 5 pieces, LDR sensors, wood plates, 16 DIY speakers.
For "Instrumental Possibility"
Dual solo exhibition with Rosemainy Buang
curated by Lynda Tay
at Esplanade Tunnel, Singapore.
“The Shadow(y) Needs No Bones” The five pieces, shaped like Morse code, are intertwined with an array of colorful wires, haphazardly twisted to connect LDR sensors. These sensors generate sounds and rhythms that vary with the shadows of people walking through the Esplanade Tunnel. Often, passersby are unaware that they are changing the sounds and rhythms. The shadows cast over these five pieces orchestrate a collective performance by the audience, acting as public instruments, similar to the bells, drums, and gongs in Thai temples that anyone can freely play.
The Shadow(y) Needs No Bones by Arnont is centred around five participatory instruments devised with LDR (light-dependent resistor) sensors. Brightly coloured and reminiscent of the inner mechanisms of an amplifier, sounds generated by the instruments are further activated through the shadows of passers-by and are undergirded by Arnont’s long-standing interest in the idea of public instruments and creating sounds collaboratively. (text by Lynda Tay)
Photos by Esplande’s team.
Interviews for “Instrumental Possibility” exhibition
Interviews by Lynda Tay
info : https://www.esplanade.com/offstage/arts/insights-instrumental-possibility