Florian Van de Weyer (Be)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Boîte de Milgram (creation)

Boîte de Milgram is a reproduction of an intonarumori of Luigi Russolo, Italian painter and composer, who is considered as the father of noise music. He is also author of the Futurist Manifesto, The Art of Noises (1913). An intonarumori is a simple box with a crank: when it is turned, a sound sequence is played, resulting from the noises produced by the internal mechanism. Modernized, this reproduction works because of an electronic mounting connected to loudspeakers. The sound used will be a sound of torture. The purpose of this, being to recreate a Milgram experiment. It is a 60s’ social psychology experiment conducted at Yale, aiming to measure the willingness of individuals to obey a figure of authority. The mechanism triggers a sound and gives the sensation of initiating torture to a third person: the executioner must then make a choice: continue the experiment despite the intiguous suffering or abandon the procedure.

With the support of Transcultures and ARTS² (IDM workshop), as part of the Émergences sonores et numériques program.
Thanks to Silvain Vanot.

Biography

Florian Van de Weyer is a digital artist and student of sculpture at the Mons ARTS² School of Arts. His practice focuses mainly on the world of virtual machines. He seeks to use these mediums as tools of artistic creation by diverting them from their primary function. The sculptor approaches the question of the infinite loop by integrating it in different ways into his installations, sometimes in a sculptural form, sometimes in a cinematographic form. Through these devices he seeks to understand and comprehend the desirable and undesirable effects of this phenomenon on our perception and imagination.

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