{"id":550,"date":"2020-12-17T01:06:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/?page_id=550"},"modified":"2023-04-04T06:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T06:01:28","slug":"sonic-generator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/?page_id=550","title":{"rendered":"sonic generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sonic event generator for gallery wall<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/491861669\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>constructed from reworked post-consumer waste materials &#8211; plastic, cardboard, aluminium &#8211; the work is activated when a visitor drops a quandong nut into the top-most channel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the nut sonifies the various materials as it travels quickly on its gravity-assisted journey to the lowest receptacle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the piece is an analogue sequencer that, while repetitive of the same sequence, is each time slightly variant depending on initial conditions and the momentary physics of the nut&#8217;s encounters with materials along the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>quandong &#8211; the nut is sourced from santalum acuminatum, a small hemi-parasitic tree endemic to australia&#8217;s arid interior ecologies &#8211; the fruit of the tree is a hard woody nut surrounded by a thin fleshy membrane, high in amino acids and trace vitamins it&#8217;s good eating for humans and animals such as the wandering emu that spread the unbroken though acid-effected and scratched by crop-stones nut in their scats &#8211; the nut&#8217;s journey through the birds body, and the pile of fertiliser it ends up in, are key to the trees germination and distribution&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the woody marble-like nut works well for sounding because of its gyrified surface texture &#8211; a smooth-surfaced marble makes less sound, mainly just the percussive strike when dropping from one material to another, while the quandong nut sounds as it rolls as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>gary warner december 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sonic event generator for gallery wall<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>constructed from reworked post-consumer waste materials &#8211; plastic, cardboard, aluminium &#8211; the work is activated when a visitor drops a quandong nut into the top-most channel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the nut sonifies the various materials as it travels quickly on its gravity-assisted journey to the lowest receptacle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the piece is an [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-550","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/550\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garywarner.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}