2018
3D-printed acrylic sculpture with soft pastel, four 3D-printed nylon sculptures with soft pastel and colored pencil, 3D-printed rose gold, two framed watercolour and soft pastel on paper, costume with wool thread, artificial flowers, lamé, polyester, and silk flag, feathers with dye, felt-tip pen on drumhead, video with sound, 62 min 20 sec, silent video, 40 sec, 11-channel sound installation
NESS software and NESS laboratory residency courtesy of NESS, Stefan Bilbao, Talbot Rice Gallery, and Tessa Giblin at the University of Edinburgh; research supported by the Talbot Rice Gallery, St Cecilia’s Hall, and the Reid School of Music at the University of Edinburgh; 3d-printing technical support by Cosmo Wenmen, and Andrew Crowe @ Meta Objects; sound spatialization support by Stephen Moore, mouthpiece 3d model adapted from “Smooth 7C Bach Trombone” by Boesfx Cvsupo @ Thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2723035), CC by 2.0; “Vincent Bach 5G Large Shank Bass Trombone Mouthpiece Lookalike” by Brine James @ Thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1744070), CC by 2.0; “7C Bach Trombone/Euphonium Mouthpiece” by dellagd @ Thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:114129), CC by 2.0; video performance by Shane Aspegren, photo documentation by Ji Hoon Kim and Dennis Man Wing Leung
”The work, Possible Music #1 (feat. NESS & Shane Aspegren), fills a room, and incorporates drawings, ambiguous, trumpet-like forms jutting from the brightly hued walls, and multiple speakers on the floor, each one sprouting fake flowers. 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.”
Exhibition audio guide