The second version of the Speaker Wheel was created to make it more durable, larger and louder. Equipped with a powerful loudspeaker and electronics, this device is a heavy-duty metallic wheel combined with a PA system built with reinforced 6ft satellite dishes and a modified oil barrel. There are currently two wheels, the original one, and the (this) satellite-dish iteration, created individually to explore performances of noise. Additional iterations are neither planned nor discarded.
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Performance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo: Madeleine Gallagher.
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Photo: Madeleine Gallagher.
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Photo: Madeleine Gallagher.
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Fabrication process. Photo: NKA.
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Fabrication process. Photo: NKA.
Experiments with the Speaker Wheel #2:
Acknowledgments: MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Jan St. Werner.