Sound Machine

The idea for my sound machine came out of necessity rather than artistry. I live a somewhat minimalistic lifestyle, and so have very few "things" lying around my room. Because of this, I was limited in the complexity of the machine that I could really build. So I started to think about something else that once I started I couldn't control. Immediately the fluxus projects came to mind, and so I decided to do a little addendum to my last project. Like I said in class, the result was significantly different from what I thought it would be, possibly because I overestimated the class's level of enthusiasm. I had given some people instructions to make harmonies and some people instructions to make dissonance, so what I had envisioned happening was for those two groups to sort of chase each other around for the full minute. Instead, everybody seemed quite fed up with the whole thing after about thirty seconds or so, and ready to stop singing/speaking/drumming, and so when miles finally shouted "HEY" after what seemed like forever, there was a truly beautiful and much welcomed silence that was far more pleasing and interesting than any other sound I could have imagined making.