This roar is the shift from an art of notes to art of sounds, from the art of sound to the art of noises and from the latter to the boundless and anonymous murmur of life and/or machines. --- Jacques Rancière
HYPER TRANSMISSION is a series of artwork discussing the state of sound transmitting in the city. The city is full of the sounds of human activities and operation of machines at different pitches with various frequencies. We are surrounded by the sounds produced/emitted by the city. Yet we seem unable to listen to or understand them. The sounds are everywhere whether we can hear them or not, can feel them or not. The exhibition explores the soundscapes of different times and locations, the sounds resulting from varied human activities and mechanic operations, or sounds in all kinds of events. It includes the momentary transmission and influence of these sounds, and does not simply present the sounds of a single landscape or space. Through the alienation and transformation taking place in the creative process, the work develops our sensibility to the sounds in the living environment, and represents the sounds of our generation.
HYPER TRANSMISSION is consisted of two new installations by Fujui Wang. Parallel Waves aims to highlight the sounds of electromagnetic radiation flooding in the city yet beyond human hearing range, which, when paralleled with noise in urban environment, are the two mega-soundscapes in the city. The electromagnetic sounds collected in Taipei, Tokyo, Berlin, New York are employed and transduced on the 8 sets of ultrasound speakers, transmitting and spinning in the room, emitting uncommon sounds overwhelming to human hearing. The other interactive installation, Murmur, includes 6 sets of hanging devices and buzzers controlled by chips. It refers to the invisible flow and transmission of flooding information in urban environment as well as all kinds of alerting sounds heard in our daily life that seem like the murmurs of contemporary technology.