Musical Typewriter MAD Museum
2013
Installation/ Mixed media
An interactive installation that invites young and adults to play. Its sense of fun is quite delightful, that is fresh and witty.
Usually you would use a typewriter knowing the outcome, however this typewriter whose mechanism is attached to a series of fishing lines, allowing an unknown outcome unique to each key. These wires are all linked to little hammers, and when their key is pressed, the hammers strike all a variety of things to produce different sounds: empty jars of pasta sauce, cans, bottles, foil. There aren’t any patterns or arpeggios, the excitement is in the inherent unpredictability of the contraption. It is difficult to guess which key is linked to which hammer, so something as mundane and everyday as a qwerty keyboard becomes incredibly unpredictable as to its output. Displayed at the Mad Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon (UK). http://themadmuseum.co.uk
这是一个邀请青少年和成年人共同参与的互动装置。它带来的趣味感十分迷人，既新鲜又机智。通常，人们使用打字机时会预知结果，但这台打字机的机制却连接着一系列鱼线，使得每一次按键都会产生未知且独特的效果。
这些鱼线都连接着小锤子，当按下某个键时，小锤子会敲击各种物件来发声：空的意大利面酱瓶、罐头、玻璃瓶、锡纸。这里没有任何固定的节奏或琶音，令人兴奋的正是装置本身固有的不可预测性。人们很难猜测哪个键对应哪个锤子，因此，一个日常而平凡的 QWERTY 键盘，变得极其不可预测，无法预知其发出的声音结果。
该装置曾在英国斯特拉特福德镇的 Mad Museum 展出。http://themadmuseum.co.uk