Radio Pendulum
Pete Gorman
2008

Both sound and image are transmitted wirelessly from primitive hand built circuits, revisiting explicable technology. Deliberate corruption and reversal of the pleasure producing apparatus of mass media communications. It is a post apocalyptic cargo cult idol, a technoshamanic divination tool, a lab grown abomination shrieking its way into places it should never be.

 A pattern emerges, a periodicity of sound and vision. The hypnotic interplay of sound and image, complementary binaries, ebb and flow, the analogue, evocations of Tesla, robotics, radio art, noise. The work is generative procedural, auto-poetic, it is the thing itself, non-representational. It is the three legged theatricality of the extraordinary, the anomalous object, the do it yourself audiovisual entelechy.

- Motorised pendulum fitted with 3 radio transmitters, 3 microphones, 2 mini cameras with two TV transmitters

- 2 Televisions with antennae receiving signals from separate pendulum mounted camera and transmitter pairs

- 2 radios receiving signals from pendulum mounted microphones via FM transmitters

- 2 projections receiving direct camera signal from 2 mini cameras mounted in front of television

 fustigate vb. (tr.) archaic. to beat; to cudgel
hierophant n. a person who interprets and explains esoteric mysteries

Fustigation of the Hierophant is a warning system

Pete Gorman 2008

 

Installation in Computing for free studios, Dunedin New Zealand 13th Nov. 2008.

Installation went well after replacing a broken camera on the pendulum head and some time spent in tuning in the circuits. Also the longer length of the pendulum shaft required a lower motor voltage as the period of arc was slower.Work was well recieved in both assessment for Graduate Diploma and in the public viewing that evening Thanks to Tetsuo Kogawa for circuit design.

Radio Pendulum Detail of Pendulum Head
pendulum head and second TV at rest
Radio Pendulum Detail of recieving television
television closeup in action

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