Woodpecker_Sound Installation Art Work

WOODPECKER Team 2 _ Smart Craft Studio 2016

Team 2 _ Smart Craft Studio 2016 Team Members

Instructors

Yiming Chen . UT Chuck Kuan . PSD Richard Freeman . UT Chunchan Chien . NCTU Hideaki Asaoka . (TA) . Hidakuma

Kyle Li . PSD Vivian Lee . UT Junhao Hou . NCTU Kobayashi Shigeru . IAMAS Wada Kenji . Forest Academy Tamada Sensei . Hida-Sangyo Tanaka Kazuya . Master Carpenter

Content Background 2 3 4 5

Hida-Furukawa Forestry of Hida Theory Inspirations / Concept

Demo 6 Working Logic 8 Working Mechanism 10 Working Process

Woodpecker at the sunset

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Background

About Hida-Furukawa

Hida is located in Gifu Prefecture, in the center of the Japanese archipelago. Narrow valleys stretch between countless steep mountains, dotted with villages. 92.5% of its area is mountainous forest, surrounded by great mountains. {1}

Satelite map of Hida

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Background

Forestry of Hida

Hiking Trail in Hida

When the hardwood forests formerly used for furniture in 1960s were felled, to compensate for the postwar housing shortage, it became national policy to plant new fast-growing conifers. ... . The result has been that now, the Japanese mountains are overrun with excessive quantities of Japanese cedar, which should already have been felled. Failure to properly care for artificially reforested trees causes forests to become sites of neglect and waste, which in turn has a deleterious effect on rivers and seas.{2}

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Background Theory

ARTIFICE HUMAN LIFE

ARTIFICE HUMAN LIFE

NATURE GOD

~18 Century

Before Industrial Revolution

NATURE

19~20 Century

NATURE

HUMAN LIFE

ARTIFICE

21 Century

After the Industrial Revolution, the relationship between nature, human life and artifice changed. The woods in Hida give people an expression of natural resourse, but it turns out to be artifice.

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Background

Inspiration / Concept

ARTIFICE (Woodpecker) + SHISHIODOSHI (Machanism) = WOODPECKER! (Sound Installation in the nature) 5

Demo

Working Logic

The Pecking Logic

Both temperature and humidity influence the pecking pattern.

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The Weather Mode

Each woodpecker peck on their own rhythem.

The Detection Mode

When the motion sensor detect the movement of people or animal, it will stop pecking after sending an urgent alarm to other woodpeckes.

The Frenzy Mode

When every motion sensor was triggered, all the woodpecker will make high-quency pecking noise to show their frenzy mood.

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Demo

Working Mechanism

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WoodPecker is a sound installation that creates an immersive auditory experience through the use of interconnected, environment-sensing mechanical percussive creatures.

It seeks to excavate new perspectives on the existing soundscapes of the forest while instilling a playful yet insistent reminder of the presence of the artificial & the manmade, even in seemingly the most natural of places.

The wood that parallel to the grain is sensitive to the moisture. During the hot dry days, the wing of the woodpecker will close.

As the air getting wet, the wing of the woodpecker will open (because of the character of the wood) in order to amplify the pecking sound.

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Demo

Process

1.marking

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2.sawing and sanding

3.carving the base

4.imitating natural bending by steaming

5.clamping for bending

6.bending after steaming

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Demo

Process

7.installing instrument

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8.joining

9.varnishing

10.testing

11.connecting with eletronic components

12.demo

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The Takayama Museum of History and Art Floor Guide>; Takayama Museum of History and Art. {2)<About Hida Sangyo and Furniture Making> ; Hida Sangyo Inc. {1} <