08.02.13 – 14.04.13
OSCILLATOR
What oscillates? From swinging pendulums to throbbing beats and harmonics, Oscillations are repetitive variations from one state to another that occur usually over time. Found in human-made systems and in physical, biological, and informational processes, they can arise, either by design or by accident. Sometimes they’re a critical component, essential to the correct function of a system, other times they might be a curiosity or a nuisance, or even a catastrophic force.
Curators
Douglas Repetto - director of the Sound Arts MFA program in the School of the Arts and Computer Music Center, - also was involved in curating ARTBOTS exhibition in Science Gallery Dublin in 2008.
Stefan Hutzler - Associate Professor, Physics, TCD, was also involved in BUBBLE exhibition in 2009
Michael John Gorman - Founding director Science Gallery Dublin
Lynn Scarff - Director Science Gallery Dublin
Highlights
Exhibits
Kelly Heaton’s images literally come to life with the pulsing, chirping, and breathing of the natural world that surrounds her in rural Virginia…
Neg-Fi’s sound is based upon acoustic beating. This phenomenon is created when two tones of close, but not quite identical, frequencies interact.
This work explores organ transplantation and the ambiguous thresholds between life and death
Telephone Rewired is an immersive audiovisual art installation and scientific experiment examining the role of oscillations in the brain and the future of human cognition.
All natural oscillators work by converting one form of energy into another and back again…
Otautahi is an experimental music composition drawing upon the extreme oscillating phenomenon of an earthquake.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) provides symbols representing all the sounds that can be produced by the human vocal tract.
Feedback is the distinctive shrill screech that develops when a sound loop exists between an audio input, like a microphone, and an audio output, like a speaker…
Cradle - Euler’s Disk - Rattleback presents three mechanical experiments that the audience thinks it is familiar with.
Among the variety of forms that oscillations take in nature, living organisms make frequent use of rhythms and feedback to coordinate their internal state…