Floating Fields
Interactive Sound Installation
Floating Field is an immersive art experience using movement from the audience to create unique soundscapes. A sea of balloons is floating just above the floor, filling the room. The balloons move and sway when the viewer walks through, thereby triggering different birdsongs from each balloon.
Created by
Presented at
Ravensbourne Welcome Space Gallery, London , UK, 2014
Bargehouse Oxo Tower London, UK 2008
Trøndelag Centre of Contemporary Arts, Norway 2005
Gallery 19 C, Aarhus, Denmark 2005
L Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2003
Lots of movement creates multiple sounds, when the viewer stands still the sounds fade away. The audience can create their own floating field of birdsongs
The work is a low-tech project and linked Tine’s research into immersion and the moving body interacting with the world.
Interested in seeing more of Tine's work using balloons to create an immersive art experience? Check out Rain Balloons!
Where does the body end and where does our surrounding world begin? These were the two questions that resounded inside my head after seeing Tine Bech’s interactive sound installation Floating Field
…It is the weightlessness of the sculptural construction that makes the work sensitive to the slightest influence. This sensitivity is important as it highlights that the body is capable of affecting the world, without being in direct contact with it. The installation signifies the body’s indefinable boundaries; there is a life between body and world that is not immediately intelligible. In other words Tine Bech unites body and world in a formless intersection on the edge form."
