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| The mischievous adventures of The Activator |
| ...an art work failing to find its final destination |
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The Activator is a sound engine and street installation object developed by Leonard van Munster for Debates & Credits. Below are some remarks about its bothersome journey to Russia, and a series of snap shots of The Activator in Moscow and Ekaterinburg.
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The Activator is a sound box that registers the movements of people passing by in front of it, and plays back a short fragment of a music piece for each passer-by. Thus, if many people pass by in an even flow, a regular music composition is to be heard from the box, but if people pass by at uneven rates only unrecognisable fragments can be heard, right at the moment when you walk past...
In Ekaterinburg The Activator was tested in the Metro (with limited permission), but The Actavotor was never allowed to "perform" in the Moscow Metro system, where it was supposed to find its ultimate destination....
Refused access to its destined location by local authorities The Activator became an instant street performer, dragging passers-by on Moscow city streets into its lure, and even two Moscow traffic policemen, playing with the music box in a quiet moment of their shift at the edge of the Red Square...
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