Tangential connections
interactive sound installation, 2017
first presented at BÚRA
There are six squeezed soda cans on the wall. When someone touches one of them, music plays for the duration of the touch. Touching different cans at the same time produces different music, adding new layers, transformations to the original material. Exploring all the possibilities requires the cooperation of several visitors. The more boxes are touched at once, the more interesting the sound stream becomes.
L/EGO
interactive sound installation, 2019
first presented at A Hold fogat mos
“When I was four years old, I told a long story from memory and it was recorded on tape. At the time I really liked building things out of Lego. When I was 40, I built a gadget covered in Lego, which constantly generates new, mostly nonsensical, stories from the ominous audio recording. By touching the coins individually or simultaneously, anyone can try to disturb it.”
In the headphones, a child’s voice is telling a story (Babar and Santa Claus). By touching one or both coins, one can influence what is played alongside/instead of the child’s voice: a melody that follows the declaim of the speech, or a percussive texture that follows the rhythm of the speech, or both. The story told by the child’s voice is thus accompanied by organic music.
Swing for Two, Somewhere
interactive sound installation, 2020
first presented at Hangfarm 2020
Added sound functionality to an existing swing. Quiet at rest, the speed of the two seats (i.e. the intensity of the swinging) determines the volume of each part of a two-voice musical piece. If two people sway at the same time, a variety of combinations can be experimented with. The musical material is a synthetic-organic recreation of a romantic duet. Detailed description (in Hungarian) here.
Different Spaces
sound installation, 2021
first presented at Térviszony
Augmented headphones, private listening space.
Different sounding spaces. Spaces found, stolen, recorded, imitated, reconstructed, synthesized, emptied, layered, resized. Spaces past, unusual, imagined, dreamed, expanded, projected, longed for, tired, used to, never heard of. Real and virtual sound spaces where nothing happens.
Thanks to János Bali for his help in the technical realisation.
Fox Dance
interactive audiovisual installation, 2021
text: Kinga Tóth
first presented at ArtPiknik Cered 2021
The fox won’t come if we don’t call her. But if we find a way to talk to her, she might even respond.
HoME-Corner
interactive multimedia installation, 2022
concept: Bálint Bolcsó, Franciska Éry, Ábris Gryllus
sound programming and interaction design: Bálint Bolcsó
light design: Ábris Gryllus
first presented at HoME Exhibition @ Mixtur Festival
You read a sentence into the microphone. Fragments of many interviews about the topic ‘home’ with people across Hungary get gradually combined into collectively reconstructed echoes of your sentence.
