Designed By: Nathan Hall
Built By: Justin Hicks, Charlie Dallas, Keli Sequoia
Nathan Hall is a music composer, performance artist, and visual artist based in Denver, but he has worked and studied all over the world. For his gallery show at Understudy, he took inspiration from his time in Gotland, Sweden, a small island in the Baltic Sea. He wanted to create the feeling of an archeologist discovering a lost musical civilization through artifacts and sounds. He asked INCITE to assist him with the center piece for the exhibit, handing us a number of wind chimes and asking for us to make them float in and out of a sphere shape, offering a simple hand gesture to describe the movement. To accomplish this, we built a tall frame and hung the chimes into a sphere shape, tying them to a motor driven crankshaft that, when spun, would raise and lower specific chimes, breaking the sphere apart and bringing it back together. Easy, right? The frame was used to transport the chimes, and in the gallery, broken down to allow the chimes to appear as if they were floating.
