Construct - Destruct

installed at The Huntington Gallery in Austin, TX

This installation was comprised of two reel-2-reel tape recorders on a stand, one microphone, and a spotlight. One of the reel-2-reels was on record, the other on play. A tape loop connected the two machines. The viewer could interact with the piece by speaking into the microphone, it would be recorded by the first machine and play back their voice on the second. The 40 second loop would eventually tape over the voice (the playback of the voice would be captured through the microphone - getting more and more quiet).