"String", the beauty of strings stretched taut.
sound-lighting installation
materials: acrylic boxes, fishing line, water, bead, flashlight.
size: 6.7m x 3.5m
"String" is an interactive audio-visual installation completely free of any high-technology digital components. It uses simple, everyday principles of sound and light and is realized with common materials. Fishing line bears qualities similar to those of musical strings, and stretched across clear boxes in number and attached to a wall analogous to musical wood, it becomes an enormous stringed instrument. The boxes act as the bridge of the instrument, and with certain pressure on the fishing line, sound is produced. Water is contained in each of the boxes, and with each pluck of a string, participants can see the tableau of ripples produced by the vibration of sound. By moving the clear boxes up and down, different pitches of sound can be adjusted.Lit from above, the work forms rays of flowing light.Just as Eastern aesthetics are to a great degree created in a context of restriction, the stretched fishing line has the possibility to break at any time. This installation requires interaction on the part of its viewers, but only such that those who want to see or hear its beauty must do so at the risk of destroying it.

"String" installation in tokyo 2010,Nov, at 3331 art chiyoda.