Algorithm combines a custom-made pipe organ with an automatic teller machine
(ATM). Visitors enter the gallery space and see the organ from behind. In the
towering, nearly 20-foot-tall interactive sculpture, a Diebold ATM sits
inside the pipe organ, replacing the typical organ keyboard, pedals, keys,
buttons, and knobs with various ATM parts including a card reader, keypad,
speaker, display screen, receipt printer, and cash dispenser. Each financial
transaction that visitors conduct generates a unique musical score that
produces randomized notes and chords at varying degrees of volume by driving
pressurized air through pipes selected via the ATM keyboard. The artists
collaborated with composer Jonathan Bailey to create a composition of sounds
that range from atonal material to more classically structured melodies,
harmonies, and phrases.
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