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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Voice Array. Performance by Rahzel.

2,828 views · Published 18 September 2012 · 4:11 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: VernissageTV · 2012 · Entertainment

Rahzel, beatbox star and godfather of Noyze, performs at Bitforms Gallery, New York City, using artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's artwork "Voice Array" as instrument.

Voice Array is as a sound and light sculpture that fills the gallery's far wall and consists of LEDs and a customized intercom system of audio playback and recording. Here is how it works as explained by the gallery: Capturing hundreds of voices and translating each one into a series of light flashes, the piece stores a unique pattern as a loop in the first light of the array, until the next participant speaks into the intercom. Each new recording is pushed along its long horizontal band of LEDs, as sounds of the voices gradually accumulate. When the first voice reaches the other side of the piece, the participant's phrase is once again released as sound, punctuated by the staggering pulsation of all the lights in tandem. The ever-changing voices stored by the piece play back through a directional speaker, during moments of less activity.

On the occasion of the exhibition's opening, vocal percussionist Rahzel, aka The Godfather of Noyze has been commissioned to perform a piece, using Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Voice Array. Rahzel is a two-time Grammy award winning artist, beat boxer, actor and writer. This video documents part of the performance and the use of the piece by individual attendants of the opening reception.

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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Voice Array. Performance by Rahzel.

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