Copper Rain

Sound Installation
Interaction between sound and copper phosphate in an electrochemist system
Collaboration with Chemist Dr. Shay Tirosh

In their joint work, Dr. Shay Tirosh and artist Elad Shniderman hypothesize that the texture of copper plating will change as a result of changes in the electrical voltage that will be affected by sound harmonics. In a system set up as part of the work, using speakers, they are transferred to the solution as part of the system that produces the copper plating. The surprising result of the experiment is different from the research hypothesis. The copper crystallizes from the solution and slowly crumbles as a kind of black rain that falls on the urban landscape which is seen through the solution. The materiality which constructs and disintegrates is described by the artist as a metaphor for over-creation. The cumulative load, built out of noise and commotion, disintegrates and yet, the same disintegration produces a raw material for the creation of another load.

The sound composition is based on Yehuda Amichai’s poem Ha’acharon (The Last One)

Commissioned for the Fetter Museum of Nanoscience & Art, Bar-Ilan University, Israel