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# INSTRUMENTS
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/instruments/
- Published: 2014-05-11T09:54:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-12T21:19:50.000Z
- Description: This novel project coupled domestic staples and themes with the sonic senses, creating altogether new objects formed from abstract ideas
- Author: Helio Rosas
- Tags: Seeds, Music, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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Taking inspiration from the way sounds behave within a domestic setting, an exhibition explored the nature of noise in our homes and reimagined them with a series of audio-equipped furniture pieces that functioned as bizarre musical instruments.  
Making its debut in [Ventura Lambrate](http://www.venturaprojects.com/?ref=protein.xyz) at [Milan Design Week](http://www.milandesignagenda.com/?ref=protein.xyz), [INSTRUMENTS](http://project.wdka.nl/instruments/?ref=protein.xyz) completed a [trio](http://extra.wdka.nl/fabrikaat/?ref=protein.xyz) of [exhibitions](http://extra.wdka.nl/alteredappliances/?ref=protein.xyz) and was a collaborative project between international designers in the [Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design program at Piet Zwart Institute](http://www.pzwart.nl/nl/courses/miard/?ref=protein.xyz), Rotterdam.   
There were five objects in total. Obsessive Cleaners saw a quintet of friction idiophones customised into cleaning devices, amplifying the sound of a domestic spring-clean, working together to create a minimal symphony while simultaneously scrubbing surfaces. The creators compared cleaning to the act of playing an instrument, a process that highlights the nuanced neuroses of individuals who obsessively strive for perfection.  
For Domestichordophone, a wooden cabinet became a stringed instrument, with the artists intending to reflect tensions between two people within a domestic environment. Paperscape visualised the air that fills a room, and was inspired by domestic clothes hangers and the sound of air moving between paper sheets. Auscultable, meanwhile, represented the hidden sounds within a domestic space, embedding a membrane which can produce sound into a table and performed through a stethoscope. It aimed to remove the clinical elements and scientific connotations of medical instruments, repurposing them within the domestic arena.   
Lastly, sonic f.lux consisted of hanging pendant lights incorporating a speaker and a body of water, with a view to extending the sense of sound into a physical object.   
Together the project was held within a space designed to mirror a black-box theatre, and each project exhibited along with an accompanying video. Most striking is the tangibility of the exhibition, combining abstractions and granting them a new physicality that coincides with the intended new, creative meanings.

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