CeLL

 
 

CeLL is an industrial strength music box making use of the voluminous acoustic boom that a 6m shipping container can offer. CeLL operates as a self-generating symphony, converting digital data into spontaneous rhythmic sequences. At times a raucous cacophony emits from the open doors, at others a rhythmical pounding evokes the universal urge to dance. Painted with motifs of clouds and sky, the box is closed off by bars running across its front, a frustrating prohibition between bodies and the thunderous machinery inside. As loud as CeLL is at its peak, there is something about the quality of this loudness that presses you to want to get right inside of it, so its rhythms can really vibrate your bones. The comic element to CeLL is in the unexpected shifts and clashes of tempo, in the way it becomes an organism with its own pulsing personality, oscillating curiously between mechanized factory and shantytown one-man band- minus the one man

 

CeLL, a MIDI controlled pneumatic orchestra inside a 20ft Shipping container