Mediaroom Melkweg, until Friday September 30th, 2006, Sunday September
11th from 16:00 hrs on Sei Matsumura will be present.
Hot Step Junk
All you need to do is making nice stepping on stages, listen to the
sound and watch the projected generated graphics.
'Hop Step Junk' is an interactive sound installation that creates audio and visual representation of the audience's footsteps. The sound of a footstep is very expressive. Depending on one's weight, clothing and gate, a footstep can sound quite different. The period between steps defines one's personal rhythm. The sound output of 'Hop Step Junk' is entirely derived from the audience's footsteps. The footstep sound is recorded and immediately played back in loop. The sound triggers movements of graphics. Hop Step Junk' creates a multigenerational playground, an instrument that an audience can easily play with. The audience becomes conscious of its trace and presence through the experience of 'Hop Step Junk'. Their presence will remain as looped sequences of sound and graphics until someone else erases its traces by new steps.
Sei Matsumura(1970) is sound installation artist and the composer. He studied at Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and currently is doing his Ph.D. course at Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo in Japan. After a career as a sound designer at video company 'SEGA', Sei Matsumura widened his activity to the area of
interactive arts. His interest is to materialise an interactive
environment in which people can fully play with sound. His artworks have been exhibited internationally in Japan, Canada, France.