Basti Aker

Sound artist and composer

(and sound designer, editor, recorder, and installation artist and piano tuner and bicycle mechanic and union organiser and builder and bikepacking bag maker and project manager and)

Spire (2009)

Treated wood disks and player, for Truman Brewery Art Gallery (London, UK).

The disks play different works exploring an acousmatic narrative about language – vowels in particular.

An example of the disk for the vowel “I” – listeners would place the disk into the player and listen to the information.

Arduino and Max/MSP used for all the physical technical aspect,s and Ircam Audiosculpt for all the sound materials.