Let's continue the textile thread that started with yesterday's post by looking at a sound installation by Tokyo-based Japanese artist Ei Wada.
"Toki Ori Ori Nasu" (Falling Records) is an impressive work of art, suspended between film and media art that consists in four tall glass columns in which tape reels fall gracefully down to form intriguing and inspiring patterns.
Yet this sound tapestry is only temporary: when the reels are empty they indeed reverse and dramatic music starts playing in the background.
The piece is inspired by Ei Wada's fascination with mix tapes, the obsession of a generation that was quickly out-fashioned by new technological devices such as digital music players.
The installation will be part of the "Next Gen Art: New Horizons" (21st November 2014 – 15th February 2015) exhibition at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, an event that will be looking at art and video gaming influencing each other and that will explore the connections between art movements such as Symbolism, Romanticism and Surrealism and the visual language of video games and at artists using games as an art form.
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