Trio Eidophone (2010 - Work in Progress)
Film / Prototype / Performance
Fun with latex, salt and singing!...
Filmed / photographed at Utrophia
With thanks to Andrew, Steve and Jules for providing their considerable vocal talent
Trio Eidophone from Louise O'Connor on Vimeo.
Based on a home made invention from 1885 by Margaret Watts-Hughes, This device is designed to enable a group experience in the physics and physicality of singing, sound and vibration.
Singing into the tubes creates patterns of resonance in the powder the surface, such as those seen and documented by Gallileo, Robert Hooke and Ernst Chladni, as well as ancient peoples believed to have used resonant patterns of sand on drum skins to predict the future. The curious hexagonal storm cloud on Saturn’s north pole is also often attributed to these effects.
Part of ongoing resonance investigations in 'Big and Small': A series of practices, experiments and spectacles which attempt to connect us to scales and concepts beyond everyday experience.
