Client: Hard Rock Hotel
Location: Palm Springs, CA, United States
Completion date: 2014
Artwork budget: $90,000
Project Team
Artist
Benoit Maubrey
Industry Resource
Gerrit deVries
Industry Resource
jago whitehead
Overview
500 recycled loudspeakers that are soldered together as an “active” public sound sculpture. The electromagnetic signals from recycled radios produce a low-level “white noise” into which local spectators can add their own tunes and pre-recorded messages. The sculpture is also conceived as a full-blown interactive sound sculpture where participants can play guitar and add their voices via bluetooth technology.
Sound is regulable via mixing board.
Size: 6 meters X 6 meters X 6 meters
Goals
cooperation with Mr Important Design and the owner of hotel
Process
All my work results from a collaboration for designer, client and local situation.
Additional Information
commissioned by Hard Rock Hotel/Palm Springs, CA, . 10' X 10' X 10’, 700 connected loudspeakers, amplifiers, radios, Bluetooth receivers. Sound: low-level white noise. People can also call up the sculpture and talk through it for 3 minutes or simply plug in a microphone or electric guitar.