S / T SINTAP recreates a pan, a paradigmatic example of popular demand. A pan is the main characteristics of immediacy, spontaneity and vindictive character. A pan is generated organically, and developed collectively by the maximum noise possible made extremely everyday objects. These objects are used and no other obvious: Objects rude, cheap, plenty ... but the quality of household objects, the private space and related to the first, seems to refer to an extreme situation in which the basic and primary individual is at risk. In a pan, utensils, serving utensils for food, seem to claim their modest status in an act of liberation for the owner of such equipment, you can complain, complain, complain ... immediately, this is so unmediated. But the pan
presented in S / T SINTAP is not immediate, is not spontaneous, it is not vindictive. SINTAP is primarily an instrument of mediation and staging of social action, subverting the phenomenon of protest. SINTAP presents some isolated individuals and arranged in a grid, whose presence is instrumental: other individuals (real this time) are those which control the protest by some pots will work as a control panel. In a playful way, the pan of individuals becomes an instrument, where the noise occurred before (the crash of the caps) is now operational, while that silence and restraint in the act of separating the pot and its lid is now producing the sound event. By taking off the top of the user, the rally will start or stop.
The spontaneity of the pan away to be user-driven it-viewer, who is boss of an orchestra, and shall have the power to regulate the level of involvement through the activation of each character, the more characters more manifestation of sound. A director who wins and loses, gains control of the instrument and also the situation by not taking part to go outside. Lose liberating action and perhaps the chance of success for their actions. That is why SINTAP is a performance in this piece all complain but no one protests.
SINTAP makes this gesture of protest and social burden on a play action, devoid of such a purpose, creating a musical instrument, not without some irony, by the interactive control such demonstrations, subverting protest and bringing that character to his role more playful.
The piece presents a set of pots on a table, and faced a video projection featuring characters still with pans and other utensils in their hands. When user-spectator covers up any triggers a video in which a character makes noise with kitchen items. Could lift a lid or more, triggering a single video or more. Combinations or how to use the facility are different and depends at all times of who handles it. Each video is for a character, so the number of pots, videos and characters are the same.
Each user will interact and play in a way, by creating or raising rates several caps at once, alone or help from other users, or just watching, doing nothing pans (as a spectator).
You need time to adapt and exploration that allows to know which sequences are activated depending on which cover up, what happens, what it sounds like or what does not sound and the possibilities it can offer the piece once identified the elements.
interaction device is relatively simple. Each pot with a lid works as a touch sensor. When you uncover it, change the status of this sensor, as if it were a switch. This signal is sent to a computer hidden under the table through the Arduino microcontroller, which will communicate this change in status of the switch-pot Puredata program, which manages the control of the video. Upon receiving such Instead, activate the corresponding video Puredata to the pot, which is displayed on the video projection.
The video will play in a loop and will only stop the user to place the lid on their respective pot.
S / T_Sintapa was seen earlier this year at the festival Ruidocracia .
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