Twilight (Twilight Music Box)

2004
100X40X10cm
Wooden construction, with a pair of light sensors, electronic circuits, bell coils and brass tubes
Private collection

Twilight is a twilight music box, that is, a music box that only plays at dusk. When it is under a certain level of light, a light sensor activates an electronic circuit that moves a series of metal rods that strike brass tubes. This intensity of light always occurs at dusk and dawn and lasts for a few minutes. There is a variation in the time at which the music box starts to play and the duration of this active state, since this state is determined by the light and this varies throughout the year. The music produced is undetermined.

Twilight was exhibited in 2004 in the group show “Vol.” at Galeria Vermelho in São Paulo and in 2005 in the solo exhibition “Engenhocas sonoras” at Galeria A Gentil Carioca in Rio de Janeiro.