Sound in motion
An interesting installation at the University of Brighton Gallery shown as part of the Brighton Festival. This consisted of two works by a Swiss artist Zimoun which although of architectural form were designed to generate sound. The first one you came two was hundreds of thin wire rods mounted in a line along a wall which flicked from side to sound a made a noise a bit like a waterfall. The second was a series of big brown boxes forming a wall each of which had a ball on a mechanical pivot which made the ball beat against the box in different rhythms. It was amazing how the boxes amplified the noise and how it was a different volume depending where you stood in the room. I found this work really relaxing and could have sat with it for ages.