This
piece has two parts, a photograph of my father mounted on aluminium and
hinged on the right hand side. It is slightly at an angle to the wall. The
second part is a circuit board battery and loudspeaker which are suspended
in space in front of the photograph. The digitised sound which my father
and I both make 'Oi Yoi' is stored in a memory and played back at regular
intervals.
When the viewer moves towards the circuit board the
sound is played back faster and when he moves away from the board it plays
back slower. The playback speed is determined by the speed of the viewer.
The sound thus goes between the tragic and the comic
and back again according to the viewer's movements. The sensitivity of the
sensor is about 3 to 4 meters.