...Tony started building drone boxes in New York. The first thing he got paid for was around 2002, when he made a light-controlled audio mixer, which was part of an art installation for Simon Lee. 1,000 pinhole cameras inside of a bus. Tony: The pinholes were set up, as if the bus was the camera body, and you were inside, so as you rode through Manhattan, literally thousands of [moving] images being beamed into it. A rolling camera obscura? Tony: Exactly. He had hired musicians to compose a soundtrack for the ride. The visuals were dependent on the weather, time of day, and route. He wanted the soundtrack to be changeable, depending on the environment. The mixer had light sensors on the outside of the bus. The light would control the levels of individual tracks. Essentially, the tracks were being remixed by the bus ride... tapeop/interviews/104/make-noise-records/
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:24:47 +0000
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