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Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

EM No.3 and Round Trip

EM No.3 and Round Trip

Kanta Horio -

Kanta is a young Japanese artist with a home-made, short circuited take on electronics and physical phenomena, which he uses in performance to produce close circuit systems of audio / video feedback.

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Kanta sends audio signals through a large cylindrical electromagnet hooked up to an audio amplifier, causing all kinds of fluctuations in the magnetic field being produced by the magnet. Placed under a board covered in small metal objects, coins and paperclips are thrown about by the magnet: they scratch and beat out a kind of abstract, skeletal techno, a symphony of knackered Geiger counters; their image projected behind the performance as an oddly charming stop-motion-looking animation.

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5 images, 2 videos, 1 audio
Audio Recording
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio in silhouette against a blue screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio operating an electro-magnet in front of a projection

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Kanta Horio in silhouette against a blue screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre