Triad is a sound sculpture consisting of three large mirror-polished stainless steel tubes. The hollow tubes act as acoustic resonators emphasizing the pitch sensation of a D-major chord.
With the tube openings at ear level, visitors can listen to the details of their surrounding environment through the acoustic filters. Through this listening process, visitors may attend with increased sensitivity to familiar and mundane sounds, which are now transformed through a musical lens. The existence of this musical quality is nonetheless reliant on environmental sounds.
While the seemingly half-hazard arrangement of the tubes creates an angular architecture at odds with its surrounding environment, the reflective finish allows the structure to fluidly integrate and at times disappear into its surroundings. This tension between imposition, overlaying, and disappearance is the crux of Triad.
Adam Basanta is a sound artist, composer, and performer of experimental music. Born in Tel-Aviv (ISR) and raised in Vancouver (CAN), he currently lives and works in Montreal (CAN).
Across disciplines and media, he interrogates intersections between conceptual and sensorial dimensions of listening, the materiality of technological apparatus, and the intertwining of human behaviour and mass produced consumer devices.
His work has been recently presented at Carroll/Fletcher Gallery (UK), National Art Centre Tokyo (JPN), American Medium Gallery (NYC), New Media Gallery (CAN), Moscow Biennale for Young Art (RUS), and The Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe (USA).
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