Instruments
Auto Gendèr
Mas Bowo Auto Gendèr, 2014 gendèr bars, resonators, motorised gambang striker, sensor devise, metal frame. A motorised frame containing four wooden resonators and gamelan bars spins erratically as a mechanical striker hits and misses the mark.
Swayamvara
Dale Gorfinkel, Peter Blamey Swayamvara, 2014 projector, shadow puppet, kropek container, motors, solar panels, amplifier
Savage Pencil
Jompet Kuswidananto, Peter Blamey, Dale Gorfinkel Savage Pencil, 2014 mosquito zapper, desk, pencil, sheet metal
between two trees, between two ears
(By Caitlin Franzmann) One of the folklores identified with the Alun Alun Kidul is masangin, the ritual of walking through the twin banyan trees blindfolded. It is believed that those having pure hearts can walk directly through the two sacred trees...
Lotek Exercise Machine
Dale Gorfinkel, Lotek Exercise Machine, 2014 taps, foot bellows, metal frame, balloon, plastic tubes, funnels, reeds A bellow powered exercise cage becomes the site for a personalised sonic encounter with airflows, valves, tubes and balloons.
Motherboard Tree
Peter Blamey Motherboard Tree, 2014 motherboards, rattan, copper wire, amplifiers. An amalgam of the synthetic and organic, constructed trees sprouting motherboard branches covered in veins of connective copper wire.
Odong Dangding Prototype
Tintin Wulia Odong Dangding Prototype, 2014 odong odong vehicle, motors, modified anklung, electrical switches, cylindrical music box A prototype odong odong add-on with pedal powered modifiable cylinder interface that triggers an electrical anklung on the vehicle’s roof. Read Tintin Wulia’s blog entries about the process of making this work; dang ding odongodong and mills, wheels and odong-odong dinging.
