Popup Performance
String Thing #2 | Fae Ordaz & Penina Biddle-Gottesman
El Museo Cultural Exhibition Space
555 Camino de la Familia, Santa Fe, NM 87501
The first String Thing was born from a bucket of discarded piano bass strings. Fastened with nails to two blocks of scrap wood, at their best they produced a low resounding thud.
A year later the second String Thing came to fruition, this time made of harpsichord strings and a cigar box, fashioned with guitar pegs, heart-shaped holes, and bridges. These strings are strong and thin, bending and stretching with the bodies that animate them. Inside the other box is an Arduino which attaches to an accelerometer based glove and potentiometers. One hand activates the strings, the other’s motion controls their processing. String Thing #2 exists in the space between the two bodies that wear it. They are its backbone. Without them it makes no sound.
Attendance included in Festival ticket
