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| In 2010, sound artist Richard Chartier was awarded a Smithsonian
Institution Artist Research Fellowship to explore the National Museum of
American History's collection of 19th Century acoustic apparatus for
scientific demonstration. Chartier focused on the works of the German
physicist Rudolf Koenig, including the Grand Tonometer (c. 1870-1875).
This beautiful and precise set of 692 tuning forks expresses the
frequency range 520 v.s (vibration simple) (260 hz) to 8192 v.s. (4096
hz). The pitches of the forks extend over four octaves, affording a
perfect means for testing, by enumeration of the beats, the number of
vibrations producing any given note. The Grand Tonometer is the only
instrument of its kind in existence. During his Fellowship, Chartier
individually recorded each of these unique instrument's existing tuning
forks as well as many other instruments, devices, and their tonal
interactions. Rudolph Koenig considered the Grand Tonometer and his
other creations to be purely scientific instruments. His precise
workmanship extended the Grand Tonometer's range to frequencies across
the field of human perception, thus allowing the listener a chance to
witness the nature of sound itself. Chartier's own compositions
juxtapose soft and hushed, almost imperceptible, fragments with high and
low frequencies, bursts, and static in an asymptotic process that cuts
away from and deepens the nature of sound, finally achieving
compositional focus in the spaces between them. Chartier was
particularly drawn to the Grand Tonometer, feeling a distinct connection
to Koenig's approach to sound, and to his aim of a new, or enhanced,
way of listening. |
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