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Rachel Golub writes: The Liminophone is an instrument that synchs with coastal data from the buoys around urban waterfronts, generating algorithmic real-time compositions. Each buoy becomes a polyphonic instrument, a character that changes with very subtle fluctuations every six minutes. Everything is in real time. Limen, the greek for "harbor", describes the sheltering place of an indented shoreline; the commerce of a Thessalian marketplace; the liminal space of a controlled environment in which our understanding of existence is in transition. Forms of transit could be abstract "commerce and commodity-trade, the beginning of alienation and individualism" or actual, in travel between points. Phone, the greek for "cry", or a human sound, recognizes that this particular sonification of oceanographic data is not a completely mathematical expression of wave data. It is, rather, an attempt to "hook up" the ocean data, in real-time, to a sound system, in order to create a performance environment that will allow the waters to participate with the musicians in a real-time composition. |