A mysterious device "crt mgn" that you can see and hear electromagnetic waves that you can not usually feel

Honor excellent works in four categories including entertainment, animation, manga, etc.The 17th Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival, The German musician has won the grand prize of the art departmentCarlsten NicolaiiThinks "Crt mgnIt is a work called. Crt mgn is a work that you can feel with visual and auditory sensation of electromagnetic waves that you can not feel in everyday life.

Here is a device with a large pendulum with a magnet hanging from the ceiling, crt mgn.


The hinge part supporting the magnet.


Two monitors are lined up on the floor, and four white lights of the neon tube are projected.


Two speakers lined up next to the monitor.


Crt The magnets used in mgn may affect pacemakers and other equipment, so you need to leave 1m or more from the work when you watch it.


This is Nicolai Mr.'s author, a musician active in the activity name Alva Noto. Sometimes I collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto.


When crt mgn starts to work, a large pendulum begins to swing while drawing an arc.


Every time the pendulum passed over the monitor of the TV, the speaker began to hear loud sounds like Buon Bwon.


Crt mgn is actually playing the sound can be confirmed from the following.

Crt mgn is playing sound - YouTube


The light of the four neon tubes projected on the monitor turns into a gray scale according to the movement of the pendulum.


A mysterious crt mgn is a mechanism that the antenna installed on the monitor captures the magnetic field of the magnet attached to the pendulum and the screen on the monitor is distorted each time the pendulum passes. The antenna is connected to acoustic equipment as a device for analyzing electromagnetic waves.


The audience can perceive the variation of the electromagnetic wave converted into the acoustic signal as a sound and can also be seen on the monitor. Crt mgn is exhibited at the 17th Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival and it is a work that you can enjoy by listening to the electromagnetic waves that everyone has not felt.

© 2013 Carsten Nicolai