Foot Vox
Yale School of Art
March 6 and 10, 2023

A performance that activates my tap dance drums, drums built from repurposed scrap wood and scrap metal and activated by tapping or maneuvering them with my feet to make rhythm. Equipped with contact mics, the drums' rhythms are looped and layered, then sent through a voice transformer to create melody.

 
A short, square, fluorescent orange platform with wide, square columns as its legs, resembling a microchip. The platform's top is a flat, light brown square of wood.

Tap Dance Drum (Orange), 2023
Repurposed scrap wood, spray paint, screws
16 1/4” x 14 7/8” x 4”

A square, metal sheet slightly elevated off the ground with two short, monochrome, fluorescent pink hollow squares on top

Tap Dance Drum (Pink), 2023
Repurposed scrap wood, repurposed scrap metal, spray paint
22 1/4” x 24” x 5”

A small metal ramp shaped like a fat, inverted L and supported by two spaced-apart, parallel, monochrome, fluorescent yellow sheets shaped like right triangles

Tap Dance Drum (Yellow), 2023
Repurposed scrap wood, repurposed scrap metal, spray paint, angle brackets, screws
27 3/4” x 24” x 12”

A medium-size, long and narrow, monochrome fluorescent green sculpture with a surfboard-like shape stacked on top of a number of geometric shapes and a long, skinny acute triangle as its base.

Tap Dance Drum (Green), 2023
Repurposed scrap wood, spray paint, metal hinge, screws
52” x 9 3/4” x 5 1/4”