Wave Pendulum of Falling Cats (2014)

Duration: 1:48
Instrumentation: single channel video, stereo audio / 8-channel video, 8-channel audio
Installations: Yper Museum, Ypres, Belgium - “Poes” Exhibition, 01.05.21 - 16.01.22

An audiovisual composition applying the concept of the wave pendulum to a series of unfortunate cats who have been dropped upside down by evil scientists. The cats are able to deftly shift their weight and land on their feet, but no! They are magically returned to the hands of their oppressors.

A wave pendulum is a series of pendulums hung from carefully cut lengths which allow them to drift out of alignment, through a sequence of harmonic phase positions, and then back into alignment again (here's a nice example: youtube.com/watch?v=1M8ciWSgc_k)

The piano part is created by assigning a pitch to each cat, which is heard when that particular cat hits the ground. The surrounding atmospheric sound is made by processing the piano signal.