volusonogram

Volusonogram (volumetric sonogram) Tim Vets Museum of Image and Sound, Sao Paulo. july 2009

A three-dimensional moving light-sculpture, consisting of sound waves. It can be observed from different angles by walking around it, like a generative hologram floating in the center of the space. Sound is transformed into volumetric shapes in motion, transforming as the sound waves change their composition. Complex sound waves result in chaotic light shapes, while static and regular forms emerge from pure and harmonic sound waves. At the basis of the installation lies the idea of considering sound as movement. Depending on properties such as speed, recurrence, size, regularity, medium..., a manifestation of movement can be perceived in varying ways. Certain types of movement make themselves observable by getting air molecules to 'sympathise' and transport them through space to reach our eardrums. This is also known as...'sound'. Here sound waves define the path a light-point travels within a volume. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_6VvTqqeR4