Wappen Field 7.0 at CultureLab LIC, Long Island City, NY, March 7 – April 29, 2024
Wappen Field is a participatory sound installation featuring 12 chrome-plated steel helmets that serve as resonant chambers, transforming the sculpture into an immersive audio environment.
Composed by Michelle Jaffé, the 27-minute vocal work utilizes SuperCollider software to place male and female voices dynamically throughout the helmets, creating dissonance, rhythms and vortexes of sound.
Wappen Field 7.0 at CultureLab LIC, 2024
Behind the Mask: The Art of Women Welders, curator Tess Howsam, Long Island City, NY, March 7 – April 29, 2024
Credits
Michelle Jaffé
Wappen Field, 2003–2011,
(additional composition in 2015)
Concept, Composition, Sculpture, Structure Design, Models, 3-D Renderings, 27-minute vocal composition. (Updated SuperCollider software, LED’s, Proprietary clamps in 2014)
Chrome Plated Steel, Speaker Drivers, Mirror, LED’s, Amplifiers, Audio Interface, Power Conditioner, SuperCollider, Aluminum Structure, Computer, Mirror,
9’ x 18’ x 9’
Original Music and Vocal Director
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Code Design and Composition Spatialization
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 Individual Artist grant
New York Foundation for the Arts fiscal sponsorship