Based in London, Bradford Bahamas are a collective of artists and musicians who revolve around an interactive analogue audio/visual installation by Nitin Lachhani. Lachhani's practice often engages transmuting natural phenomena by diverse processes that involve using found electronic equipment to high end rapid prototyping technology.
The piece incorporates electrical current of varying frequencies, directly connected to an array of TV's and computer monitors. The cathode ray screens visualise the raw signals and emit the energy within the environment as electromagnetic fields. As one approaches a screen, the human body conducts the radiation and becomes a conduit for the signal to pass to a sound system through metal pickups on the floor. Ones proximity to the screen influences the amplitude of the audio, the closer you are the louder the sound. Each screen is an individual, possessing it's unique input signal hence its own visual and sound. Input signals can be far flung as Michael Jackson's Billie Jean to the analogue language of a digital device, tapped into by directly jacking into microchip legs on a running circuit board. By careful tuning a group of dancers have been able to determine audio by their movements within a large space. The piece has toured various venues as an installation for the public to interact with along with numerous improvised performances involving audience participation.
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