DESCRIPTION:
Audible Forms

sound installation (2013)
microphones, loudspeakers, stands, cables, audio system
(variable dimensions, 8 min. loop)

The sound installation Audible Forms was realized drawing inspiration from Malfatti's nineteenth-century statues that have been arranged as a silent choir facing the entrance of the exhibition La Magnifica Ossessione at MaRT Museum.
Four microphones were inserted inside the cavity of four plaster casts and the resonance relation between the negative spaces of the statues (interior and exterior) was recorded, so as to create what can be called an "acoustic cast" of the four plaster casts. The recording process was then inverted by playing back the sounds in the museum's room with the same four microphones that had been previously customized to become loudspeakers, so that each microphone/speaker play the resonance of a plaster cast, making therefore the forms of the statues audible.

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