William Kemp Gerrard

Expansion

An audio format and playback machine are designed and built using antiquarian technologies as a lens to reveal the hidden nature of the contemporary musical vessel. Taking the grand and vast medium of the Piano Roll as a means to expand the concealed nature of the Mp3, bringing the seemingly immaterial format to the scale of the tangible, the visible and perhaps even readable realm of human perception. By way of expansion, exposing to our gaze, the personality in and of compression.