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Using aluminum pipes to generate low-frequency sounds, Elam MFA student Helga Fassonaki presents a self-perpetuating system that amplifies vibrations produced by re-engineered audio-tape players. Fassonaki’s idiosyncratic construction has the character of a musical instrument, using “noise” generated from the object itself, and shaped by the architectural features of the space, to articulate the tactile resonances of Window’s acoustic environment.

Unfolding continuiously and occasionally dropping below an audible level, these sonic emissions shift in response to the changing conditions of the space.

The experiential dynamics of Fassonaki’s installation evoke the noise creations of early twentieth century Russian Sound Artists, for whom the quotidian machine was an instrument for music— here, unmanipulated sound issues directly from the source, from the tape heads and motors of the tape machines.

Helga Fassonaki is a Masters student at the Elam School of Fine Arts. She was raised in Los Angeles, California. Helga¹s research is primarily concerned with the spatial properties of sound, and the translation of the visual to the aural. She has exhibited and performed in exhibitions in Los Angeles and Auckland, and recently contributed to Spoken and Field, an anthology of New Zealand field recordings.