Birds sing at a higher frequency that the human vocal chords can ever do. However, Marcus Coates cleverly has employed opera singers to sing a stretched version of bird song. The precision of the opera singers allows the stretched version to be sung perfectly, and when sped up it turns out that with the help of technology humans can sing like birds.
Charlemagne Palestine
If you think past the annoying sound of Charlemagne Palestine's voice he aims to create, you are able to hear the incredible frequencies that mimic that of the motorbike that he is riding. He wants to escape the island he is on and does this by taking the viewer on a journey around the island while liberating himself with this performance.
Anthony McCall 2-13-07
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Anthony McCall experiments with the light in "Line Describing a Cone" by highlighting the light projected from a projector. The projected video starts with a beam of light, to make a single dot on the wall. The dot then extends to become a projected circle on the wall; meanwhile the light coming from the projector makes a cone. The first time this was practiced my McCall he had many people smoking so that the light projected would be seen better as a cone in the space. I really like the idea that light can make shapes and occupy space in the same way that an object would, yet, at the same time be fluid and only a resonance of the particles in the air, such as smoke.
In class we recreated the original "Line Describing a Cone" by projecting the video of a circle being made onto the wall and every smoker in the class to smoke a cigarette.
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