Loud Objects installation
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The Loud Objects (Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta, Katie Shima), a performance trio from New York, work with live construction of low-level electronics in both performance and sound installation.
The Loud Objects have toured the world, performing in festivals such as Piksel in Norway, Italy's Screen Music 2, the UK's Evolution, and NIME, Blip Festival, Bent Festival and the Maker Faire in the USA. Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta and Katie Shima met while undergrads at Columbia University. While Katie studied architecture and made strange things, Tristan and Kunal pursued music and computer science and went on to NYU/Tisch's ITP program. Katie continues to study architecture as a grad student at Columbia. Tristan works on a related project, 1-Bit Music, and collaborates with Kunal Gupta on a web development platform to change the world.
Tristan: http://www.tristanperich.com
Kunal: http://www.godof.org
Katie: http://www.katieshima.com
Sound installations by the Loud Objects employ the same microchips, now patterned along a wall, long wires strung between them and small speakers speckled around. The microchips happily generate sound as they sit on the wall, forming a chattering ensemble of little black insects. Accompanied by hot soldering irons and graffitied circuit diagrams, the installations encourage the audience to rewire the hardware. The interactivity demands a certain level of engagement with the actual functionality of the electronics; it becomes a teaching experience, working against the simple push-button/hand-waving nature of more passive interactivity.