Artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have taken an ATM machine and installed it into a twenty foot tall pipe organ. The piece is called Algorithm, and when a transaction is made the pipe organ responds with a series of notes based on the buttons pushed by the user.
The piece was shown at the American exhibit of the Venice Biennale last summer, and commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The music generated by the organ is composed by Jonathan Bailey. When the piece was shown, viewers were free to make their own ATM transactions, making the work interactive.
Images and video courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
[via The Creators Project]
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“when a transaction is made the pipe organ responds with a series of notes based on the buttons pushed by the user.” Can a scammer decode the PIN number from the music?
My thought exactly. There are people with perfect listening pitch out there…
“people with perfect listening pitch” not needed. Merely a mic, amp, audio analyser ….
Decode the PIN? Heck, with all that noise – sneak up and hit them on the head. They will never hear you coming. Neat project. It would be even better if it played In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!
Wow!!!!
Double wow!
I like it. What do you suppose will be its eventual fate? A corner of a cathedral somewhere? The Vatican Bank?
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