"Bird Talk" (鸟语)
"Bird Talk" by island6 Art Collective (Liu Dao)
// BLURB //
Don’t. Just don’t. This is not a theatre. We are not here to give you a concert. We play no instruments. We only sing because we want to get laid. Just like you with your guitar. Admit it. We don’t need any applause nor do we care what you think about the sounds. “It’s music to my ears.” Right. It’s like a foreign language that you don’t even know is a language until you are told. Let’s take for example Chinese in which anything can mean anything depending on the tones. Now, let’s say that it has 164 consonants most of which is clicking and popping sounds, like in the Africann Taa language. What would you make out of the Silebo Gomero that’s spoken in the Canary Islands? They’ve used whistling for communicating in a huge complexity over long distances. Just like us. Or would you know you are listening to a language if you heard Sentinelese, a language on an isolated island on the Indian Ocean that no foreigner has ever stepped onto? Why I’m saying this I don’t really know. You may clap now. We have to go.
STATUS
SOLD. Public Collection, Sydney.
EDITION, MEDIA, SIZE & WEIGHT
Unique Edition, Shanghai 2017
RGB LED display, acrylic painting on Plexiglas, sound sensor, 8-bit microcontroller, paper collage, teakwood frame
52(W)×52(H)×5.5(D) cm // 9.36 kg
TECH SPECS
• SLC SD Card
• 3×MWLPV20-5 (INPUT 100~240VAC@0.55A / OUTPUT 5V@3A)
• 3×RGB P4-64*32-V1.0 (HG2017031610-100)
• 1×MWLPV20-12 (INPUT 90~264VAC@0.55A / OUTPUT12V@1.67A)
• Arduino Genuino • DFROBOT Analog Sound Sensor V2
CRATE SIZE & WEIGHT
66(W)×66(H)×21.9(D) cm // 19.26 kg
EXPOSURE
The Geometry Of Binary Life
CREDITS
Yeung Sin Ching 杨倩菁 (production supervisor) • Owen 欧文 (painting) • Jin Yun 金云 (painting) • Thomas Charvériat (art direction, animation & technical guidance) • András Gál (blurb & documentation)
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