Three videos of kinetic sound installations by Ernie Althoff



Exhibited in July 2018 at The Substation, Newport, the work features eight battery powered machines all utilising wood as their sound source. The machines are placed in a large floor drawing of sticks, leaves and photographs.



Aleatory Pentaphonics over 5-part Canon  https://youtu.be/uUexjktaUXA



Exhibited in May 2006 at Sydney's Artspace Gallery as part of the MISTRAL exhibition, the work is made of the two machines referred to in the title. Polystyrene cups serve as primitive amplifiers and filters on both machines. The canon is sounded by five 'tone-arms' sliding along the rim of a rotating found object. A long-lost video, rediscovered after 12 years.



D's Guest Appearance  https://youtu.be/2DuYC7-N3Co



Exhibited in November 2006 at a historic building in Coolamon, NSW for the Wagga Unsound Festival. Three machines make up a sporadic texture of short, sharp sound events from metals and wood, overlaying a constant wavering base-texture provided by three machines from the "Declivities" installation of 2003. Another long-lost video.

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