Nine Printed Resonators Turn Lab PLA Waste Into a Tuned Sound Field in Georgia

Nine printed resonators turn lab PLA waste into a tuned sound field in Georgia

An installation built from shredded PLA scrap collected from fabrication laboratories is on view at the Reeves House Visual Arts Center in Woodstock, Georgia until September 24. Ninefold: A Distributed Resonant Field comprises nine large-scale printed artifacts, each tuned as a resonant body to a specific frequency within a harmonic spectrum, producing sound from nine…

The Georgia Art Show Turning 9 Broken 3D Prints Into Music - Yanko Design

Every fabrication lab in the country is quietly accumulating a problem. Failed prints, test runs, leftover filament, the ghost of every prototype that didn’t make the cut. Most of it ends up in the bin. Architect Hyojin Kwon noticed this and, instead of moving on, asked a different question: what if all that discarded plastic could hold a note? The result is Ninefold: A Distributed Resonant Field, a collaboration between Kwon’s design studio Pre…