Composer Thomas Rutgers and designer Jitske Blom's latest installation, The Beaters, features a large sounding box with dozens of beaters, manipulating materiality, movement, and gravity to offer a unique auditory and visual experience.
Composer Thomas Rutgers and designer Jitske Blom turn everyday street furniture into sound generators. By attaching remote controlled percussion devices to them, rhythmic improvisations are played on lampposts, traffic signs and litter bins. This public space orchestra gives us a surprising new look at our surroundings by listening to it. Their newest installation, The Beaters, uses the sound of drumming, but this time emphasising the hammer itself. The installation consists of a large sounding box with dozens of beaters attached to it. But there's more than meets the eye: materiality is disguised, movement manipulated, and even gravity defied, showing us how visual information can make us hear in a different way.
The Beaters was curated by Resonance, European Sound Art Network, co-produced by Lydgalleriet and supported by Creative Europe Culture.