TinCans (part1.)

Tin Cans (part1.) is the first iteration of an audio sculpture. A circular network of silver tin can speakers hung by twine, each pair joined by speaker wire. Taking the image of an old toy, the tin can phone, I have used recycled cans as speakers. The piece is a comment on the lost sounds and art of communication, the lost sounds that of old telephones.

A sculptural audio installation piece, this (part1.) iteration, makes use of 8 custom built speakers hung for a single person experience. Influences and references for this work come from Andy Warhol’s soup cans (1962)[1]pop art, also sound artist John Wynne’s 230 Unwanted Speakers (2006)[2], BenoIt Maubrey’s Audio Igloo(1997)[3]and Zimoun’s, 658 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 70x70x70cm (2017)[4].

This piece is a comment on communication and our modern culture. As we listen to sounds of communication from the past that are no longer heard within our throw away society. The tin cans remind the audience of simpler times of communication, the tin can with string, where words and meanings were not lost from speaker to listener. Within the world of communication today conversations are truncated, sent as emojis, rearranged scrolled over, swiped and misunderstood. This is highlighted by the use of the tin cans that are discarded and the used of lost vintage phone sounds for the audio.