DUTCH

THREE SOUND OBJECTS

2005-06

Implemented

The Passepartout Montessori Primary School

The Municipality of Apeldoorn

Kunst en Bedrijf

The pupils’ cosmic awareness formed the basis of this commission, which also had to be stimulating and dynamic for children of all ages.
The three works were especially made for the lower, middle and upper levels, and are situated on each of the building’s three floors.
The artworks are constructed out of a number of identical modules, which are also alike in terms of design and controls.
Different artworks can be created by combining the modules in different configurations and by varying the contents.
The artworks are made of plastic. The round, red and green transparent forms are illuminated by LEDs, and they react when the square sensors are touched. A speaker is situated in the centre of each round form.

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Artwork A:
One Question, Three Answers
(upper level)

Children can select various questions by means of a dial. These are the kind of questions that can be asked by children of all ages. Each question has three answers, which can be heard on three different listening surfaces.
The levels of answers vary, and consist of the answer of a child, an adult and an expert. This work concerns the way in which the world is constantly being explained in a different way, as based on this three-part structure. There is more than one reality!

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Artwork B: Sound Roulette (middle level)

Listen and combine all the fragments of sound!

12 x 12 words can be combined.
What does a horse in a jam pot sound like? Or a horse on a cloud? Children can create and check out these combinations by means of two dials. There are 144 possible combinations.
Video documentation

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video documentatie




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Artwork C: Sound Story in Three Parts
(lower level)


This work can be read from left to right just like a comic, and consists of three ‘listening elements’. These can be activated and listened to by means of a fixed control structure. For instance, at the first element you will hear the sound of a cat meowing and at the next one a dog barking. The last element consists of the sound of a fight between a dog and a cat.
This work contains approximately 60 stories.

video documentatie





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Artwork A




Artwork A







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Voices 1 question 3 answers:



questions by: Judith de Jonge




answers expert by: Steffie Ketting



answers adult by : Felix Wijnen



answers child by: Abel Arnoldussen




Tekst Marja Baeten


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Technical realisation by: Jaap Hoogerdijk
http://www.jaaphoogerdijk.nl/


sound Roulette by: Dionys Breukers

 

 

 

 

 

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One Question, Three Answers (upper level)

Artwork C: Sound Story in Three Parts (lower level)


Artwork C: Sound Story in Three Parts (lower level)

Artwork C: Sound Story in Three Parts (lower level)


Artwork B: Sound Roulette (middle level)

Artwork B: Sound Roulette (middle level)