Mingle: 混合
Mingle is a voyeuristic sound installation that interacts with audio messages left by people in remote locations (other cities and countries) and uses their conversations as fodder for sound experimentation by constructing a sound poem.
Simple but elegant red phones are used as the tool for people to listen into the sound poem as well as allowing them to leave their own messages. The sound poem then loops until another is created through new messages. The location of the red phones change from time to time and is flexible as long as there is a connection to the Internet. All messages left on the red phones are saved to a sound sample database.
In the tradition of SpyLab, this database will become public for interested parties and artists to use as fodder for their own sound experiments.
Artists: Mingle is a SpyLab collaboration.
Exhibitions:
10+ Exhibition, Chelsea Museum, New York, NY, April 2007
New Directions Exhibition, Plug-In, Basel Switzerland, May 2007
