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Cellular Noise Maker | 2005 Mixed Media | 1 Object 691/350/170 | for Shona Kitchen and Ben Hooker The »Cellular Noise Maker« is a portable steel box comprised of a central fluorescent display surrounded by a pattern of aluminium flexible flaps. It resembles a large portable radio, and can be carried around, keeping the house’s occupants company. As data is received by the device from other noise farming devices of the Edge Town house, it is stored in its memory and shown as an intricate pattern of dots on the central display. When its memory is full, the noise-maker uses its stored data patterns as a score to generate a sound burst of many simultaneous clicking noises by using electromagnets to rapidly move the flaps on its surface. The clicking noise ends in a sharp FM radio pulse which is a highly compressed data burst of all its memory contents. Following this, the memory is wiped and the process starts again. Exhibited at: Pop Noir, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2005; Zero One: ISEA 06, San Jose, 2006
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