I dreamt I heard them blooming

Sara Constant and Miles Jefferson Friday
mixed media installation, 2021 

for motor-driven loudspeakers and resonant objects

In this installation, loudspeaker drivers, emitting instrumental and synthetic sounds, are suspended over spherical resonant objects. Small motors pull and release the loudspeakers into and out of the resonators, causing them to twitch, jump, float, and fall at differing speeds.

This shifting physical relationship between the loudspeakers and their resonators creates subtle changes in the sound—an unstable physical ‘filter’ that reveals the dynamic nature of loudspeakers as sound-producing objects.

Together, the group of loudspeakers move inside and above their containers at their own rates, forming a variable environment of sounds that waver and bloom along with them.

Miles Jefferson Friday: concept + design, building
Sara Constant: concept + design, sound

Project funded by the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA).