SOUND WAVE, 2007

Melted 78 rpm records on wooden armature
5.2 ft h x 12 ft w x 12 ft d
”Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary” exhibition at Museum of Arts & Design, New York, 2008
”Next Wave” exhibition at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, 2007

Permanent Collection of Microsoft, WA

Jean Shin: Sound Wave

Records were melted and sculpted to form a cascading wave, dotted with bursts of colorful labels. The resulting structure speaks to the inevitable waves of technology that render each successive generation of recordable media obsolete. The piece also aims to physically manifest the ephemerality of music as well as one man’s musical tastes, as represented by his personal record collection.

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