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Alpha Velo Visual Identity by Mark Bain - Beautiful Bicycle Branding Brand Development

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Mark Bain (London, UK) - space&matter Visual Identity; 2014

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Space&Matter Visual Identity by Mark Bain

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Red Tape by Mark Bain

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visual identity for Nick Kozak by Mark Bain

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The result of his 9/11 project is a 74-minute recording of the ground vibrations of the World Trade Centre's collapse and contiguous mayhem. It certainly does not make easy listening. The piece begins with a low, disconcerting rumble and proceeds through a range of fluctuating sounds

The day the earth screamed | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

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The Archisonic turns architecture into giant sonic instruments

Sound artist Mark Bain will do his Archisonic performance at our final summer event at the Netherlands Architecture Institute tonight. Read a description he wrote for his earlier performance at Hear it!:

Vestibular liminal infection working as a functional aesthetic, or how to seduce an audience to surf the architectural plane while witnessing asonic event: this is The Archisonic, a tuning point for architecture in relation to space, sound, mind and its direct inebriation. Is there a future sound that surpasses the ear to engage a direct bodily experience perhaps as a kind of sensual hybrid? Can the body be the connecting point through tuned energy, attaching the self to that of others and the venue? There is a parallel between the resonant frequency of the human body and that of architecture, both resonate at self-similar frequencies. This project in essence divines that meeting point between two seemingly dissimilar entities, the biological self and that of the so-called static architectural form.  

Using various arrays of seismological sensors placed throughout the building The Archisonic turns architecture into giant sonic instruments. Played live through large sound systems and injected with various bits of waveform material, the force of the building is driven within and tuned to maximal affect. As you move around, nodes and anti-nodes develop throughout, the composition arrives in the individual and within the collective action taken inside the space. 

Then there was “The Archisonic” by Mark Bain, who used “seismic sensors, home built electronics, oscillators, and the building.” I’m not entirely sure what happened since I couldn’t see over anyone’s head. It seemed, though, that there were really strong and really low sound waves reverberating through the arches. I could feel all my bones shaking, and my kneecaps felt weird and gooey. My teeth were having a rave inside my mouth and my tonsils were jiggling so much I started coughing. I honestly felt scared for a moment, especially when the vinyl tablecloth I was standing near started slapping my thigh. If I ever were abducted by aliens, this is probably what it would feel like.

Phyllis Ma

Columbia Spectator

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Mark Bain

Geosite: Portable Earthquake (2001)

The work of American artist Mark Bain centres on the interaction of acoustics, architecture and physical/mental reactions to infrasonics – sounds below the human hearing threshold. Bain is involved in ongoing research investigating the effects of inherent and induced sonic events on structures and the people that inhabit them. He uses both the inaudible sounds normally present in buildings and other large constructions, amplifying them with seismographic and other specially designed equipment, and the sound potential of structures, using machinery to vibrate the materials and/or surroundings – essentially shaking buildings or the ground – for sonic effect.Amplifying the seismographic oscillations of the architecture and ground, either acoustically or using vibrators, allows Bain to plumb structures with waveform data and sound, mapping out the signatures of each and defining a presence within that which is normally thought of as static.