El Inconformista

[…] Ma non è tanto questo, è il medium di massa in sé. Dal momento in cui qualcuno ci ascolta dal video, ha verso di noi un rapporto da inferiore a superiore che è un rapporto spaventosamente antidemocratico.

Pier Paolo Pasolini (interviewed by Enzo Biagi), Terza B Facciamo l’Appello, RAI, 3/11/1971 (https://vimeo.com/290826)

The installation’s general concept is the protest, taking as inspiration the South American Cacerolazo.

The interactive work is composed by two sound elements:

• The authority represented by the radio broadcast;
• The protester represented by the wooden fork banging the saucepan; this action is triggered when the spectator goes into the electronic device control zone.

These sounds have the general form A AB A, i.e.:

• [A] the noise of the FM radio
• [AB] the noise of the FM radio + the wooden fork banging the saucepan
• [A] the noise of the FM radio

Software:

• Arduino

Hardware:

• Metal saucepan
• Wooden fork
• Wooden box
• Arduino Duemilanove
• Modified speaker
• TEA5767 FM Radio Breakout Board for Arduino
• HS-53 Servo
• SRF02 Ultra sonic range finder
• LM386 Audio Amplifier Module

Dependencies:

• Wire library (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/Wire) by Nicholas Zambetti and James Tichenor
• SRF02 library (https://www.grappendorf.net/arduino-atmel-avr/arduino-libraries/srf02-ultrasonic-distance-sensor.html) by Dirk Grappendorf
• TEA5767 FM radio Module library (https://github.com/big12boy/TEA5767) by big12boy
• VarSpeedServo library (https://github.com/netlabtoolkit/VarSpeedServo) by Philip van Allen

Links & Documentation:

• Installation: https://vimeo.com/169427165 / https://youtu.be/Py2dP_EuIX4
• Presentation: https://issuu.com/leandrostar/docs/leandroestrella_el-inconformista_20_b8ae947dd1d674 [ENG] / https://issuu.com/leandrostar/docs/leandroestrella_el-inconformista_20 [ITA]
• Development: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4aBXuT