The 'Music Construction Machine' Plays at the Turn of a Crank
Joey Haar — July 11, 2016 — Art & Design
Niklas Roy's Music Construction Machine towers over a typical music box. Approximately the size of an industrial shipping crate, the glass-enclosed machine contains three instruments -- an electric guitar, a drum set, and an electric keyboard -- that are hooked up to a Rube Goldberg-esque labyrinth of pulleys, gears and sprockets. When viewers and listeners turn a large crank outside the machine, the instruments take up a discordant symphony.
The atonality of the installation isn't by accident. Rather, Roy espouses that, "as we all have different tastes in music, I decided to abandon the traditional concept of a music box," swapping out pre-programmed melodies for randomized noise.
The Music Construction Machine is on display in the Plac Nowy Targ, a plaza in Wroclaw, Poland, and is one of the installations in the city's cultural capital program.
The atonality of the installation isn't by accident. Rather, Roy espouses that, "as we all have different tastes in music, I decided to abandon the traditional concept of a music box," swapping out pre-programmed melodies for randomized noise.
The Music Construction Machine is on display in the Plac Nowy Targ, a plaza in Wroclaw, Poland, and is one of the installations in the city's cultural capital program.
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