Marla Hlady is an artist working with drawing, objects, kinetics and sites most often thinking through sound. She is based in Tkaronto, Canada and is represented by Christie Contemporary.

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Mic Spin is a kinetic sculpture and an instrument that uses a turning shotgun microphone and a live or pre-recorded sound source. The speaker used to play sounds that the spinning microphones amplify can range in fidelity from high to low. Mic Spin is designed to run independently, controlled by a microprocessor; and it is designed to be manually operated with a foot pedal.

As Mic Spin’s shotgun microphone passes by a sound source, it picks up and transmits to a sound system that in turn amplifies the sound. How this sound is then heard depends on a range of factors including microphone movement and placement, sound source amplitude, room or space resonance, etc.

Exhibition and Performance History: 2019 Avatar Residency recording of fluff (Avatar, Quebec City, Canada), 2018 Points of Listening (London, United Kingdom), 2018 Experimental Intermedia (New York, NY), 2017 Le Mois Multi (Quebec City, Canada), 2015 Errant Sound (Berlin, Germany), 2015 Music Gallery (Toronto, Canada)

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council

See also: Spincycle, Count and Strike and Spin, Orchestra of the Tactile

Mic Spin, 2015
shotgun microphone, wood, aluminum, motor with miscellaneous hardware, microprocessor controller with miscellaneous electronics and electrical, sound transmitter and receiver, stand, miscellaneous audio equipment
19 x 28.5 x 19  inches (microphone stand with motor), 11 x 4 x 5 inches / 5 x 6.5 x 4 microphone attachment

Software design: Wild Rhombus Software

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Le Mois Multi (Quebec City, Canada), 2017
Photo credit: Marla Hlady

Errant Sound (Berlin, Germany), 2015
Photo credit: Marla Hlady