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Listening Rejection

Electromagnetic levitation platform, wood prism, contact microphone, speakers, audio interface

Measurement: 5*5*1.6m

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The installation works with magnetic levitation platform, which is supporting a top and bottom prism so as to leave a floating distance. A contact microphone is attached to each prism to collect the sound wave of electromagnetic field in the platform, and is emitted by loud speakers. The power of rejection is contained in the levitation— not only the rejection between the top and base, but more importantly the rejection to exterior manipulation, as any adjustment made can break the balance in this correspondence.

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Electromagnetic field is the subject I've been studying on and this installation is a further study from the work "Green Bass Induction" on intimate listening. The power of rejection shapes a small space that allows audience to listen to the sound of magnetic field closely. Intimate space has the value to open up and grow, magnifying every material or immaterial substance, all the imagination is annexed to inner space. Thus, in the realm of intimate immensity, the interaction among the senses has appeared as a "correspondence".

An extended reading

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