Fort Thunder is a touch play synthesiser built into a play-fort that generates electronic noise as you play. The bleeps and blurts emitted as your touch intersects the forts twenty-two stainless steel poles are a result of replacing circuitry components with human bodies. Human beings are naturally electric things with capacitance and resistant properties that vary between individuals, so as various people interact with the fort introducing differing values of capacitance or resistance to the circuit it will produce varying audio results. As an instrument the Fort is best played in groups, one person doesn't have enough arms to really get this thing going. The more paths you create for electricity to flow between poles the more complex the sound becomes. Additionally, the audio produced is fed into a light organ that produces a responsive light show in sync with the sound that’s emitted brilliantly from LEDS embedded within the Forts floor surface and eleven pointed star shaped roof.
Previous Exhibitions
Cementa, Kandos, 2019
Soft Centre, Casula Powerhouse, 2019
The National, MCA, Sydney 2019
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria 2018
Fairfield City Gallery and Museum, Smithfield, 2018
Additional development Electronic Engineering by Non Linear Circuits and Steim
developed in conjucntion with Fairfield City Gallery and Museum. The Australian Council of the Arts and Arts People
additional thanks to the Original Fort Thunder; the legendary DIY space in Providence RI that is this installations namesake
