Laoban Infinite Baffle, that Matt Hope and myself have built, is now on display as part of Kunsthalle Kowloon organized, and Fabricatorz supported, Border Show 2011. There have already been write-ups by CNN and The New York Times, some in print, with more coming soon. Thanks to all who came out to the opening and supported the show. Next up is that we want to ship this work to other art spaces, shows and events around the world. It would take about a month to ship anywhere in the world, and you have a great news-getter for live events in front of your favorite gallery, space, or show. Contact us.
Matt Hope, Robin Peckham, Venus Lau and I worked super hard last week to make the Laoban Soundsystem Infinite Baffle reali-D (that’s the 2.0.11 realidad for kind readers of this reBlog).
This is how we had to exit the speaker thru a 15″ driver mounting hole.
All went according to plan mostly. Since we never saw the final part we had manufactured just outside of Shenzhen, there were some small mistakes, but nothing we couldn’t fix. Excellent for a first-run product. I spent most of the time inside the big system wiring it up, and making the connection between the baffle and the container air tight. Robin and Venus were on-sight plugging everything together and gathering any last minute materials.
After three days of assembly and wiring, we had some last minute fixes on the airtightness of the speakers. Then, we rented 3 X 1200 watt amps from Manny Portugal in Hong Kong, connected the amps to the speakers, turned the system on, and it all worked perfectly on the first try! We completed the setup with some CDJs and some classic drumnbass and dancehall for the four hour opening.
Infinite Baffle with its face off
Matt made a post about the Infinite Baffle on his site stating:
The internal space of the shipping container serves as the rear of a speaker cabinet with no opening to the outside. A total of 40 speakers were installed in the fabricated steel wall, 32 5″ drivers and 8 15″ drivers. Both the baffle section and speaker units were fabricated in mainland china that were then driven over the border to rendezvous with the shipping container. The entire project was designed without even measuring a ‘real’ container, instead relying on ISO data found online.
I documented the entire process on flickr. Up next is to find the next place to take the soundsystem to. If you are interested in hosting it, please let us know!
