Two Violins

Steel, magnets, magnet wire, electronics, amp board, rocks, sound of my mom and I playing the violin

30 × 16 × 11 in.

I take apart the mechanism of a speaker. Around a steel semicircular armature I wind red wire into a coil, creating a magnetic field that sets small suspended magnets vibrating, each attached to a rock. The frequencies come from a video of my mother and me playing violin together.