Squeeze III: King of the Forest
2023
Sound, custom piano bench, copper pipe, orange LED bulbs, record player, houseplant, faux fern, vegetable oil, light gel, electronics, stranded copper, speaker wire, wire nuts, (and paint).
Installation approx. 12 x 14 x 22 ft., duration: indeterminate.
Oscillating stranded copper wire closes a circuit between two electrified copper chimes, triggering one of 186 samples, including a sentence-by-sentence dissection of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree".
