J.S. Bach : the Crab Cannon
Rotational Installation
The work is a kinetic sculpture, presenting in 3D The Crab Cannon by J. S. Bach.
It`s an attempt to translate one of the most interesting cannons ever created from sound to image.
The Crab Cannon is a palindrome – whether played from the beginning or backwards – the melody sounds the same.
If we think about the melody as a piece of information, the work`s mission is to take this information from its environment and place it in a completely different one.
The process looks a lot like the adaptation of an organism to a different medium. Each term, for example the term `sound` has to be explored, studied and then his characteristics to be found in an image. This image is the rhombus, which other than its other qualities, is a never ending figure, which has the ability to `draw itself numerous times`.
The melody is in fact not the column itself but the projection of the light on the surrounding, each light representing a particular sound.
The issues the work raises are – how is it possible for a certain piece of information `to travel` from one medium to another without any harm and if It`s already managed to prove itself as important and furthermore beautiful, would it manage to be as beautiful in the other?
Under the honorable presidency of the Ministry of Education and Science.
