Described as an interactive music installation, Grisha Coleman’s Reach, Robot comprises dozens of blue lines strung over PPG Plaza in downtown Pittsburgh. Continually sensing the movement of passers-by, the network is hooked up to a sound system concealed in the plaza’s central obelisk.
At a level just subtle enough to register, ambient chimes murmur beneath the hubbub of one of America’s busiest town squares.
Here’s a short clip of the audio, and Coleman explaining the work…
The thought crossed my mind that when the robots rise, they could take out hundreds of meat units simply by lowering these cables a couple of feet and suddenly pulling them taut across the plaza. ShishifwiwiwiwishIINGGGGG. Splutchsplutchlutch.
Agies, would that be the sheep covered earlier today? Scroll down!
Yes, yes it would be. I must have been distracted by shiny laptops…
I was just there the other day snapping pics:
IMMA FIRIN’ MY LAZORS.
//Silly BoingBoing forbidding images.
Nice Don Martin-style sfx.
Dammit Rob, you keep making me miss Pittsburgh.
Very cool to be covering the Big Bots. I hope you will take a look at the humorous lawn mowing robot at Phipps (I won’t spoil it here). Also maybe you can find the one outside the library in Oakland because I couldn’t.
Love the Burgh updates, Rob.
I just love One PPG Place. I find the architecture whimsically menacing like something out of a cartoon.
“one of America’s busiest town squares” is a generous way to describe anything in Pittsburgh … any one else with me there?