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“The
paths taken by George Rhoads' flashing little sound-making balls are
varied and magical, making art of hypnotic movement. They've been showing
up all over North America these past few years —these intriguing
machines with acrobatic balls that move around metal tracks and make
noises as they go. There's a highly conspicuous, popular one called
42nd Street Ballroom in the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York
City. There are two in Terminal C at Boston's Logan International Airport
and two more in the mammoth West Edmonton Mall in Alberta. You can also
encounter them in shopping centers in New Haven, Connecticut; Pittsfield,
Massachusetts; Rochester and Watertown, New York; and Kamloops, British
Columbia, among other places in North America. There is a big one in
the Boston Museum of Science, and there was in the recent past a gallery
full of them at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadow on Long Island.
To the man who made them, artist George Rhoads, they are “audiokinetic
sculptures” that generate sounds as they move.” —Richard
Kostelanitz, Sculpture in Micronesia: http://www.micronesiamall.com/mimo.htm See
the sculpture
at the Science Discovery McWane Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Hear
the sounds of the ball machine at Science World B.C in Vancouver For
information on purchasing a shelf-sized limited edition sculpture, For
information on commissioning a sculpture, contact Bob McGuire, Rock
Stream Studios:
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