Sync Variations The Fetter Museum of Nano-science and Art

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2020Aug 15

"ריאציות סנכרון', עבודה המוצגת במרכז המבקרים של המוזיאון ומתעדת ניסוי רב שלבים בסינכרוניזציה שנערך בעזרת ששה עשר כנרים. הכנרים ניגנו קטע מוסיקלי חוזר בכינורות חשמליים שחוברו למערכת ממוחשבת אחת. בין הכנרים הוצבו מחיצות שהסתירו אותם זה מזה כדי למנוע יכולת סינכרוניזציה ויזואלית. 'וריאציות סנכרון' מתעדת ניסוי רב שלבים בסינכרוניזציה שהביא למסקנות מרחיקות לכת - החל מאיך מתפשטות מגפות, דרך איך לסנכרן מכוניות אוטונומיות שנעות בעזרת בינה מלאכותית ועד לאיך אפשר למנוע פייק ניוז. ..... A collaboration project that was seeded and incubated at the Fetter Museum of Art and Nanoscience: Artist Elad Schneiderman with Dr. Moti Friedman and Shir Shahal. This work, which is on display at the museum's visitor center, documents a multistage synchronization experiment that involved sixteen violinists. The violinists played the same piece repetitively with electric violins that were connected to the same computer system. Dividers were placed between the violinists to hide them from each other to prevent visual synchronization. In addition, the violinists also wore headphones to hear only the signals the audio system allowed them to hear. In other words, the system determined whose playing would be heard and by whom and at a certain stage it also started changing how often the violinists could hear each other and created art work by Schneiderman is Variations of Synchronization, which is the product of his collaboration with Shir Shahal and Dr. Moti Friedman. This work, which is on display at the museum's visitor center, documents a multistage synchronization experiment that involved sixteen violinists. The violinists played the same piece repetitively with electric violins that were connected to the same computer system. Dividers were placed between the violinists to hide them from each other to prevent visual synchronization. In addition, the violinists also wore headphones to hear only the signals the audio system allowed them to hear. In other words, the system determined whose playing would be heard and by whom and at a certain stage it also started changing how often the violinists could hear each other and created delays. Shahal chose very proficient violinists whose daily practice includes synchronization. Each violinist is projected in their real size so that the people viewing this work are surrounded by a circle of violinists trying hard to synchronize with each other. In addition to the musical expression of being out of synchronization, there is a conspicuous presence of the human experience, which is the violinists' effort to return to what they are familiar with, being synchronized, and this effort is reflected on their faces and through their body language. The transition between moments of chaos and moments of order also involves transitional moments in which clusters/groups of violinists are synchronized. This phenomenon does not necessarily depend on the physical proximity between the violinists and sometimes these are groups from different parts of the circle. The synchronization is evident through the sound and also through the location of the bow over the violin.