“Listening to the Reflection of Points”
Toshiya Tsunoda
6 Aug → 21 Aug 2004

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Toshiya Tsunoda ‘Listening to the Reflection of Points’ 2004, Installation view: West Space, Bourke Street Mall, 2004. Photography by Christian Capurro.

In order for a sound wave to be heard as sound, various physical and qualitative attributes must interpose.

Using the reception of footsteps as metaphor, Toshiya Tsunoda’s Listening to the Reflection of Points features a table with small speakers and corresponding numbers of everyday objects. A sound wave moves through the speakers at fixed intervals, exploring the changes a sound wave makes to a fixed space when it progresses towards objects, collides with them and is reflected.

As such it becomes an index for the fixed space, and generates changes as it moves. These changes are perceived by the observer and appear as occurences. Reception of these occurrences means that the state of the space has been grasped, thereby completing the change generated.

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Toshiya Tsunoda is internationally recognised for his unique take on sound installation and field recording. Born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1964, Tsunoda received his MFA from Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music.