Concept

“Aphysical Unmodeling Instrument” is a sound installation that re-implements a physical modeling synthesizer, which is usually implemented on a computer to imitate tones of real musical instruments, with physical object such as speakers, microphones, lights and sensors without any computers.

The work physicalizes Whirlwind developed in 1990s, a combined computational model of 3 wind instruments: Trumpet, Flute and Clarinet.

This work was presented currently 4 times from 2017 to 2018 at different place from the view of acoustic characteristics and constraints for installation: Japanese cultural property, general room in a university, an anechoic chamber and a lobby at music hall. The original model is common for 4 exhibitions but concrete implementations are different to adapt the conditions of the rooms.

Attempted to exhibit the works as a kind of performance that build an apparatus which reproduces sound from the description of sound: physical model taking it as like musical score.