Multiple Machine Matrix
1st performance: D.A.A.D. Inventionen Festival, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1994
The Multiple Machine Matrix (also entitled Sounds and the Machines that Make Them) is a multi-functional performance and installation environment of automated machine sculptures built from electronic surplus and trash. This network of computer-controlled kinetic devices is capable of moving complex layers of acoustically-produced sound in physical space.
MIDI signals, which normally provide control of an electronic music studio, control the movement of mechanical/robotic devices such as voltage modulated steel sheets of various sizes, pulse-controlled bi-directional metal sheet Doppler Spinners, and percussion-activated furniture. A remote-controlled robot enters this environment and pretends to learn how to perform and behave on a public stage.
©Gordon Monahan 1994-98
