Exhition of Maybetoolate, 2017

6 piano strings, excited by relay-controlled lifting magnets. The sound amplification is analog – specially handcrafted wooden tubes resonate and sound through differently tuned strings. The black powdered aluminum sculpture is modular. Aesthetic and conceptual references can be found in the Japanese architectural movement, the Metabolists.

Metabolism is an aesthetics of movement. The Metabolists extend this principle by reassembling distinct and separable parts of the relationship between Eastern and Western cultures. Conceptually, this work also ties in with the breaking up of conventional structures of Eurocentric art production, which points to the urgency of a diverse and cultural exchange, interdisciplinary and cross-genre work within a system. The viewer's experience within the installation is based on their movement. The object is not what is heard, but the process of hearing itself through action. The relationship between body, mind, and space becomes an object that contains the experience of one's resonance in a room. MAYBE TOO LATE remains playable by other artists, through individual control, or performance and experimental handling of the object, so the thing acts in dialogue with its environment.