By picking up the Cube and rotating it, the user modifies the sound and light in the room. The (over 500) samples in this installation were gathered from a wide range of sources including police scanners, popular music, short wave and CB radio, and by using peer-to-peer networks to search the internet for randomly (inadvertently?) shared audio files. The broad range of sources references the instrumental use of sound samples in music as well as common (mundane) technological interactions such as channel surfing or tuning across a radio band. For me the piece is also a study in the design of ambiguous but suggestive user interfaces.

(5"x5"x5") 5/2004