A VALE 

biosensor-activated sound installation

2016 
 

Playfully out of sync with its architectural surroundings, A VALE explores pleasurable displacement through sound and the action of swinging.  Equipped with a solar-powered, bio-sensor controlled sound system, the swing replies to your presence.  Shifting from functional pastime to experiential medium, as you swing the structure responds with a polyphonic vocal composition.  With its steel A-frame base and nautical rope seat-bed, the installation juxtaposes work and relaxation whilst encouraging a skyward view – a proposition to reconsider the familiar.  

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• Steel swing frame, aluminium and rope seat-bed
• Solar panel
• Steel sound box with coded control system, infrared sensor & speaker
• Engraved aluminium instructional plaque

 

Featuring an original composition by Seaming To

Commissioned for UCL Festival of Culture (2016)

Supported by Arts Council England