Rattlesnake

RATTLE_SNAKE 16_channel sound_installation by Slavek Kwi on 36 speakers, Mexico City 2004 A complex system conceived as a single entity composed from layers and clusters of interconnected and simultaneously independent sound units - a "jelly-sonic"organism containing micro-cells - coexisting in various inter-relations and in perpetual transformation. All sound-textures were created from field-recordings (May 2004) on location and in close surroundings. I recorded ambient sounds: traffic noise with "klaxons" (car horns) and whistling of policemen, street musicians playing "grinding organs", works on buildings etc. The structural skeleton was generated from 1 second of a seed-rattle sound.