01 Jun 2023
Robotic Resonance (or Roz) is an ongoing project in collaboration with Mark McCoin.
It is an expansion of Mark’s work with reappropriating deconstructed piano harps.
We retuned this piano harp so that multiple courses are each tuned to the same note in simple ratios.
I designed the system of linear motion tracks and robotic arms, which position motors spinning felt
in various locations along the courses of strings. The result is an uncanny and ethereal drone that can be
shifted and changed by positioning the motors in different ways.
San Antonio-based fabricators Wanderlust Ironworks fabricated the stand.