Installation

The installation comprises, an old INTEL 486 PC motherboard providing electrical current for twelve PC monitors. Each monitor is connected directly to certain components on the board, with each component emitting a unique frequency,
and source of visual noise.

For each monitor three connections are made to the board, red, green and blue creating infinite visual possibilities.

The screen thus reveals the language of the digital device, a direct representation of the electrical activity within the board.

The animations on the screen are organic, liquid like and physically intense as the cathode ray devices push them to
their limits. Such qualities can not be reproduced if the boards were used in a conventional way as a computer.

Each monitor emits electro-magnetic radiation as does our bodies and this is the signal made audible through the PA.
By varying the connection a different visual and colour will give rise to a different sound. Changing the sound becomes like selecting a different instrument on a synthesiser. The audience are invited to play with analogue feedback on the banks of monitors inhabiting the space in a radioactive banquet.

Primarily the installation works as a musical instrument, whose intention is to achieve a greater expressive ability than other instruments, played individually or by a number of people holding hands creating a human circuit. Physical movement closer or further from the screen increasing the amplitude of the sound, and giving great control and sensitivity to the user in a performance.