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Border is an interactive sound installation set in a complete darkroom.
The space is filled with the scent of potpourris that are strewn on the floor.
The visitor wanders in the darkness while feeling the potpourris under their feet, and listening to the crackling sound.
A small front room lighten by a very dim red light was set at the entrance of the installation for the purpose to block off the light from outside.
(The photos on this page were taken with the light from the front room. But the luminosity was put higher than usual for the photography.)
Only the things that the visitor can perceive are four flickering red LEDs that are set one on each wall of the room.
As you move, an afterimage of the LED remains in your field of view, that makes the sense of distance very unstable.
When you approach to the LED, a pre-recorded sound is triggered by an infrared sensor and played through a small speaker placed just below the LED for a certain amount of time.
If you get closer to the LED, you may see very obscure vision of your face in a circle mirror, and a rose in front of the mirror.
Every morning, a sound performance using voice and mouth sounds is held in the installation before the door open. The process is overdubbed between four loop samplers set at each LED position.
A small microphone commonly used in handheld devices such as mobile phones is connected directly to the sampler. The longest sampling time is about 10 seconds.
Each sampler continuously capture the sound of three other samplers in the process. The performance continues until the recorded sound reaches continuous resonance that fills the room.
Therefore, when four samplers are triggered simultaneously, the space is filled with organic feedback sounds and white noise.
A mysterious thing happened during the exposition a few times; All samplers were triggered when no one was in the installation...
The recordings shown here are recording processes of the sound performance, not recordings that were ultimately played back from samplers in the installation, recorded with a portable DAT recorder using a stereo microphone that was set in the center of the space.
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