Wappen Field 5.0 at Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, 2015
The helmets evoke armor, which protects and hides us in an attempt to create a border between self and the other. Information and objects are obstructed. Physical and psychic space is guarded, unless the edge is pierced, allowing foreign bodies and ideas to flood in. The boundary of armor asks the question: what is shut in, what is shut out?
Wappen Field 5.0 at Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, 2015
“Home and Field: Digital Explorations of Community”, 2-person exhibition, September 11 - October 20, 2015
The 27-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,
(additional composition in 2015)
Concept, Composition, Sculpture, Structure Design, Models, 3-D Renderings
9’ x 18’ x 9’, 27:00 minutes
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, Updated SuperCollider: 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 grants
New York Foundation for the Arts fiscal sponsorship