2019
Sculptor’s foam, steel, 16-channel sound installation; sound, 60 min loop
Version 1.5 of Possible Music was commissioned by the 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, and the Hong Kong Visual Art Centre.
Sound spatialization support
Stephan Moore
Photo documentation
Lily Yiyi Chan, Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition
”The music coming from those speakers—intermittent, changeable bursts of complex sound—was composed by Young using some of the most unusual instruments imaginable. Indeed, these instruments only “exist” in Young’s imagination and in the digital realm: he created them using software developed by NESS (Next Generation Sound Synthesis), a research project at the University of Edinburgh. By feeding his chosen parameters into the algorithm they created, Young was able to find out what sounds would be made by brass instruments that defy the laws of physics: a 20-foot trumpet, for instance, and a bugle that operates when blown into with breath at 300ºC.”