The Noise Maker is an interactive installation that produces a cacophony of sounds in the presence of the audience. Consisting of found natural objects and scrap materials held together by multiple clamps, the set-up is planted with several mechanical motors which is activated by stepping into the work’s senatorial radius. The motors, attached with stainless steel rods, hit and knock on the different organic elemental components, emanating rhythmic noises that resemble the man-made sound textures that we encounter day-to-day.

As the installation comes alive with a harsh discordant mixture of sounds, it creates a puzzling experience of the materialities involved that juxtapose man and nature. The resulting composition, albeit momentary, defamiliarises the soundscape that are accustomed to and prompts for deeper listening.

Discipline: Computational Arts, Research, Sound Arts, Publication Design, Spatial Design, Environmental Design

Project Completed Under: LASALLE College of the Arts

Microsite: listeninglab.cargo.site / BTS: listen.record.explore

> The motors, attached with stainless steel rods, hit and knock on the different organic elemental components, emanating rhythmic noises that resemble the man-made sound textures that we encounter day-to-day.

A short visual archive of The Noise Maker:

> Materials used for The Noise Maker are found environmental materials, such as leaves, log, tree branches/barks, twigs, seashells and rocks