Wappen Field 3.0 at Bosi Contemporary, New York, NY, 2012
“To hear through one of the helmets was to hear back in time, the way a telescope looks back in time while focused on a distant nebula…They weren’t really helmets. They were portals...”
—Douglas Crase, “Aperture on a Virtual Field,” A Public Space 17, Winter 2012
Wappen Field 3.0 at Bosi Contemporary, New York, NY, 2012
The 15-minute vocal work, composed by Michelle Jaffé, utilizes SuperCollider software to distribute male and female voices dynamically throughout the helmets, creating dissonance, rhythms, and vortexes of sound.
Credits
Michelle Jaffé
Wappen Field, 2003–2011
Concept, Composition, Sculpture, Structure Design, Models, 3-D Renderings
9’ x 18’ x 9’
Chrome Plated Steel, Speaker Drivers, Mirror, LED’s, Amplifiers, Audio Interface, Power Conditioner, SuperCollider, Aluminum Structure, Computer
Original Music and Vocal Director
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Code Design and Composition Development
David Reeder
Vocalists
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Akim Funk Buddha, Nick Hallet, Kyoko Kitamura, Sofia Rei Koutsovitis, Jeremiah Lockwood, Fay Victor
New York State Council on the Arts New Media grant
New York Foundation for the Arts fiscal sponsorship