Sirpa Jokinen: Lento no:3 (Flight no:3), 2009

Keywords: Ääni installaatio, sound installation

Sound installation Flight no: 3 deal with the state- of- minds and the physical structures connected to flying.
Flying in an airplane can be experienced as a claustrophobic situation where one has to listen to the safety instructions that refer to a catastrophe when tied to one's seat without being able to move. Flight no:3 consists of recordings made during flight with a self made piazo contact microphone from the wall surface of the airplane. They are played through construction of ventilation tubes in the gallery space. This soundtrack is recorded sounds of motor and safety instructions of different languages from airplanes of various sizes and nationalities. Its duration is about 10 minutes.

The ventilation tube construction modifies the resonance of the sounds and makes them spatial; they appear to be heard from different points in the surrounding space. The installation is built of ventilation tubes of various sizes that now operate as speakers.
They form two stereo pairs. The work aims to find alternative ways to play sounds. Piazo elements amplified by audio transformes are installed inside the tubes.

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