INTERESTING WEB LINKS FOR "PEAKING THE EDGE" ARTISTS

Plus Gallery opened the exhibition "Peaking the Edge" last Friday, with the show remaining on view through May 28th.  We posted a few interesting links on our facebook page in advance of the opening, and are including them here in our newsletter for those not tuned into FB:

From the "Cymascope" website:

Shannon Novak, a New Zealand-born fine artist, commissioned us to image 12 piano notes as inspiration for a series of 12 musical canvases. We decided to image the notes in video mode because when we observed the 'A1' note we discovered, surprisingly, that the energy envelope changes over time as the string's harmonics mix in the piano's wooden bridge. Instead of the envelope being fairly stable, as we had imagined, the harmonics actually cause the CymaGlyphs to be wonderfully dynamic. Our ears can easily detect the changes in the harmonics and the CymaScope now reveals them--probably a first in acoustic physics.

Capturing the dynamics was only possible with HD video but taming the dynamics of the piano's first strike, followed by the short plateau and long decay phase, was tricky. We achieved the result with the help of a professional audio compressor operating in real time.

http://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/musicology.html


Here's a very recent interview with New Zealand artist Sara Hughes, in conjunction with her installation "The Golden Grain" currently on view and commissioned by New Zealand's Govett Brewster Art Gallery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTwRUOmO8mk

http://www.govettbrewster.com/Events/EventDetail/e/922/title/sara-hughes.aspx#expand


Finally, here's a look at Eric Tillinghast's 2009 installation in Belgium at the Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art. Tillinghast has several video's of his recent exhibitions and installations posted to youtube, they are all worth taking a look at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bABAe6sKgDI&feature=share