Title: Mother 母親

Medium: Sounds, mixed media, sensor, and custom electronics

材質：聲音互動裝置。紙、纖維、膠、鐵絲、填縫混合料、壓克力顏料、感應器、特製電子設備、聲音、擴音器、當地溪石

Dimensions:  45”x48”x23”

尺寸：114x122x59 cm

Year: 2019

Description:

Mother is an interactive sculpture that sings soothingly in Mandarin to any viewer approaching its shell. In previous installations, the piece sang fragments of two Taiwanese lullabies that Hui-Ying Tsai’s grandmother sang to her as a child. For this iteration, Tsai composed her own original lullaby. Sound artist Jonathan Grover managed the electronics, programming, and sound mixing for the piece. The rocks were respectfully gathered from sites in Philadelphia and Delaware County and will be returned after the exhibition.

       互動式雕塑。對觀者提供一個私密的觀看經驗，當觀看者接近該作品時，它會開始安靜地吟唱著藝術家原創錄製的搖籃曲。隨著人們受到聲音吸引而朝著貝殼的開口靠近，音量會逐漸變大，如同海妖的歌聲般。

This is a collaboration with the artist, Jonathan Grover, who is in charge of electronics, programming, and sound mixing.

Photographer: Constance Mensh