Contemporary electronic music is much influenced by our understanding
of the physics of sound. Generally speaking, sound is a pressure
wave through a medium. Most common to us is the medium air. To
visualize this pressure wave, we often draw the pressure as a
function of time. Then we get a nice sinoid for a pure tone and
more complex forms for voices, ensembles of tones or noise (see the examples in the figures below).
In electronic music, the study of the modulation of
the sound waves is a very important fundamental and the “Noise” kind
of waves are used extensively.
Listening to a musical piece played with several instruments,
is like experiencing a flow of sounds that interact before reaching
our ears. Now if we think of sound as a flow in air, we feel that
we live immersed in a flow of sounds, like fishes in the flow of an ocean or
a river.
Similarly, a conversation or a meeting among people
involves a flux and meeting of ideas, knowledge, feelings and
so on.
And yet in another light, the electrical flux is like
the blood of the electronic devices, which are used to manipulate
and articulate electronic music.
So the creation and consumption of electronic music
combines each of these concepts: the flow originates in the composer's mind,
passes through the electrical components of the instruments and
flows through the air where different waves meet to finally reach
the people’s ears and their perception.
We feel that this sculpture is an elegant and intriguing representation of the interactions during electronic music concerts.
