No Sharps, No Flats
Custom electronics, Deconstructed cassette player boomboxes, Wood.
2016
Transformer is pleased to present No Sharps, No Flats – a group sound art exhibition curated by Alex Braden, featuring over thirty original compositions by DC based musicians, housed within a sculptural installation constructed from the fragments of thirty cassette- player boom boxes created by Braden, Emily Francisco, and Adam Richard Nelson Hughes.
Unified solely in their musical key of C Major and a tempo of 120 BPM, the featured compositions phase in and out of harmony and rhythm through a collaborative and somewhat random orchestration by the sculpture and the user, making it nearly impossible for any listener to hear the same piece of music twice.
Over the course of the exhibition the cassette tapes will gradually erode and distort; as with enough playtime the cassette deck motors will slow at varying rates. What begins as an experiment in harmony will suffer natural entropy and descend into dissonance
Collaboration with Emily Francisco and Adam Richard Nelson Hughes