Echoing Bamboo

Sound echoes our footsteps

Pitches respond to our lives

The site is located in the main circulation axis of Yuan Ze University, “The Passage of Red Bricks”. Students would pass through the passageway with trees on both sides when they go to school or going back home. To respond to the movement of students on the site, we turned the passageway into an instrument, which students shall activate the instrument when on their way back and forth to classes.

Upon navigating through the installation, due to the latency of activation of the instrument, sound and elastic movement sustains after the user leaves the pedal he was at, as if the instrument is responding as the ripples of the movement of the person, both in sound and space. The sound tune become a delayed response to the movement, which can only be perceived many seconds after finishing the entire bridge, and the sound will sustain for a longer period as well. If there are many people activating the instrument at the same time, the tune will be blurred, which resembles a water surface with ripples from many sources.

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Completion: 2017

Duration: N/A

Premiere: 10.3.2017 - 25.3.2017

Yuan Ze University, Taiwan