Hard Rain’s A’Gonna Fall—and change the Atmosphere Evo-Lute
ATMOSPHERE EVO-LUTE
Reception
5-8 pm
Friday, Nov. 20
Through Dec. 11
Mov-In Gallery
1600 St. Michael’s Drive
982-0389
Image at right: Phil Mantione by Alysse Stepanian
Opening this Friday in the Mov-In Gallery at the College of Santa Fe is Atmosphere Evo-Lute, an innovative sound installation by experimentally-inclined local musicians Martin Back and Phil Mantione. The installation is a series of sounds that are connected to various weather sensors around the Mov-In Gallery’s building (the same building that houses The Screen), and adapts that data into shifting sounds and flashing lights. Well, SFR caught up with Back as he and Mantione prepared the installation, adn he explains it better than we could.
SFR: So when the wind blows, is there a dog barking? What happens?
MB: Kind of. There’s a tendency in installation art to have sensors have a one-to-one relationship, so when it gets cloudy, then one thing happens. But we’ve got parameters of the sound being changed, so it’s a little more subtle. It’s not just a gauntlet of sounds, where things are going crazy all the time. But we’re going to be reading light, motion, humidity, and possibly heat if we can get that sensor to work. It’s affecting all kinds of things.
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