Lucas Abela, Temple of din, Palais de Tokyo #dodisturb 4-2015
The Temple of Din is an audio arcade consisting of a series of pinball/musical instrument hybrids that make sound generation, not scoring the games main objective. Works like; Pinball Pianola (dualplover.com/pinballpianola/) a Frankenstein experiment combining an upright piano and a pinball game with twenty flippers triggered by a keyboard that shoots balls against the soundboard’s exposed strings, Balls for Cthulhu (dualplover.com/cthulhu/) a pentagram shaped multiplayer game formed by ten guitars with their fret boards facing inward, so the strings take the full brunt of balls jostled by players stationed at each of the stars five tips, Flip-Off (dualplover.com/flipoff/) a pin/foosball hybrid that creates automated break core music by triggering Toecutter samples and Pitchfork (dualplover.com/pitchfork/) which has twenty tuning forks incorporated throughout the playfield you can aim for.
Built for musical play by Australian sound artist Lucas Abela these machines form the Temple of Din, a place that can only be attributed to the cacophonous Miami Beach video arcade of his youth. Where the reverberating screams of multiple amusement machines housed closely together in a small concrete room became etched into his psyche and must have influenced his adult life as part of the international free-noise underground.
Danke für den Tipp, David!
