Algorithm by Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
In the towering, nearly 20-foot-tall interactive sculpture, a Diebold ATM sits inside the pipe organ, replacing the typical organ keyboard, pedals, keys, buttons, and knobs with various ATM parts including a card reader, keypad, speaker, display screen, receipt printer, and cash dispenser. Each financial transaction that visitors conduct generates a unique musical score that produces randomized notes and chords at varying degrees of volume by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via the ATM keyboard. The artists collaborated with composer Jonathan Bailey to create a composition of sounds that range from atonal material to more classically structured melodies, harmonies, and phrases.
(via: marthagarzon)
How much would it suck if your card declined and the organ was programmed to make the WAH WAAHHHH sound.
A lot. It would suck a lot, that is how much it would suck.
(Source: ianbrooks)
