mnartists.org: Jack Pavlik

12 Bands

Jack Pavlik — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:01:50 GMT

Kinetic sculpture, 2007 Please view the video at [url=http://www.vimeo.com/4512806]http://www.vimeo.com/4512806[/url]

8 Bands

Jack Pavlik — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:05:57 GMT

8 Bands, 2002 72" x 48" x 36", welded steel, motor In this piece I utilized the flexible and resilient nature of the spring steel that I had been using to create the sound in the earlier works to create a work that is purely about movement. This sculpture uses a crankworks that drives rods in a vertical motion, this simple movement in turn translates into sweeping curved overlapping patterns in an almost airborne structure.

application: 8 Bands

Flanders 2003

Jack Pavlik — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:04:57 GMT

application: Flanders 2003

Sound Sculpture 2

Jack Pavlik — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:20:05 GMT

Sound Sculpture 2, 1998 108" x 42" x 16" welded steel, motor, electronics This was an early work that investigated the use of sound in sculpture. I was struck by the sound that is produced when a wood hand saw is played musically, and decided to experiment sculpturally with the concept. My first attempt was a sculpture that used a simple gear works to turn motors on and off as way of programming the sounds that would occur when the sculpture is played. In my most recent sculpture, a programmable logic controller was used to control the striking of hammers on the bands of spring steel that conduct the sounds. These sculptures must make aesthetic concessions to the mechanical nature of motors and geometry, but at the same time, in the building of a pattern of moving elements and the flow of the sound from the sculpture, a transcendence of mechanics is taking place.

video: Sound Sculpture 2

Group of Twenty

Jack Pavlik — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:18:02 GMT

Group of 20, 1998 Each chime between 20" and 40" tall, 15" wide In this sound sculpture I built an installation that was freed from a frame structure that was used in Sound Sculpture 2. This work used twenty individual structures that each had their own structure and sound. This piece is also unique in that it can be arranged in ways to suit different spaces.

application: Group of Twenty

The Storm

Jack Pavlik — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:12:48 GMT

The Storm, 2000 120" x 24" x 72", welded steel, motor This sculpture uses one single band of spring steel twenty feet long that creates sound merely by rocking back and forth by a single motor. The variations in the patterns of the sounds give viewer the feeling of an oncoming storm.

application: The Storm