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!!1977 — Acoustic Lens ---- — — ''Moore College of Art, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1977-78''{br}{br} \|t [../files/articles/anderson/1977_acousticlens_600.jpg\|../files/articles/anderson/1977_acousticlens_1000.jpg]{br}{br}{br}[../files/articles/anderson/1977_acousticlens2_600.jpg\|../files/articles/anderson/1977_acousticlens2.jpg]\|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t \|t ''— — Lastly sounds can be conveyed through gases. In 1977 Laurie Anderson inserted a rubber diaphragm inflated with heavy gas in a wall. The acoustic lens works on principals similar to optics, the lens focuses sound to a single point. The focus point of the sound can be changed by inflating or deflating the lens and in that way adapting the curvature of the lens.'' —{small}(R. Block et al., 1980){/small}{br}{br}''— — Laurie Anderson designed an acoustic lens at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Bielecki constructed a sphere made out if a thin latex material. It was inflated with CO2 and inserted in a wall between two rooms. ^[One room contained a tape player which played a recording of a person whispering slogans by Benjamin Franklin. The other room, containing a statue of Franklin, was silent.^] Sounds from one room were played through the sphere that focused them to a spot in the other room. ^[Working on optical principles, the lens focused the sound from the tape player to the exact point in the other room at which a viewer would encounter the statute of Franklin. The viewer would stand near the statue, with no loudspeaker visible, and hear the whispered slogan. The focus point of the sound can be changed by inflating or deflating the lens and in that way adapting the curvature of the lens.^] Bob Bielecki once confided to me that it didn’t work too well but the idea was there.'' — {small}(Alvin Lucier, In Music 109 : Notes on Experimental Music, Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2012, Chapter 10 - Lenses, Intervals ; Laurie Anderson, Stories from the Nerve Bible, New York : Harper Perennial, 1994 ; Judy Donaway, [My Beautiful Balloon, Part 1\|http://www.jeweltone16.org/judydunaway/articles/MyBeautifulBalloon.pdf], in Musicworks 81, Fall 2001, pp. 14-21 ; Laura Maes, Unraveling the mystery: the creative use of natural phenomena in sound art, In [ARTECH 2008, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Digital Arts\|https://repositorioaberto.uab.pt/bitstream/10400.2/1973/1/ProceedingsArtech08.pdf], 7- 8 November 2008, Edited by Alvaro Barbosa, Portuguese Catholic University, Porto, p. 29)){/small}{br}{br}''— — Acoustic Lens, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia 1978 : "While we were working on the project, we wandered around Philadelphia looking for a place to install the lens. We stopped at the Franklin Institute, the museum that houses a huge walk-in heart with amplified heart." '' — {small}(Laurie Anderson){/small}\| {br}{br} {br}{br} ----
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