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Moving forward with gears

Posted on October 21, 2017

Advanced Practices in Video, Performance and Electronic Arts

As I mentioned in an earlier post, the strength of the motor that will be used for my final project is not sufficient to break strings of bigger gauges than the two smallest ones. So I will need to create gears. This time I powered through Inkscape’s user-unfriendly UI to design the gears I needed. […]

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Music and Noise Devices Panel

Posted on October 17, 2017

Advanced Practices in Video, Performance and Electronic Arts

This week, we had a panel discussion in class, a bit akin to how artists are invited to discuss their works and influences in Q&A sessions. Each student prepared 5 minutes to present 
on an artist or topic that relates to his/her work. You can see my presentation slides embedded below, although it may be […]

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Sculpture brainstorm

Posted on October 14, 2017

Independent Study

During the meeting with Michael Montanaro this week, we started brainstorming about some sculptural and mechanical ideas that I have about the piece I am building. During my research on mechanical instruments, I thought of the felt hammers that pianos have to dampen the strings sound. It inspired me so that maybe the strings of […]

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First functional motor