Tuning to Spheres

Performance with wine glasses, sine tone generators and turntables

Duration 10min

A wine glass can be played by rubbing a finger around the rim in smooth circular orbits. It can also be played without being touched using sound alone.

Tuning to Spheres uses wine glasses as 'lenses' to amplify the sound of sine tones played from small loudspeakers.

The player changes the pitch of the sine tone to 'tune in' to individual glasses sat on turntables. When the turntables are set in motion, specific glasses are prompted to resonate as they pass underneath the speaker.