Pin Drop 2005

‘You could hear a pin drop…’ This phrase which, emphasises the silence of a space, was the inspiration for a machine which mechanises the process of a pin dropping and amplifies it. The repetitive crash as the pin is picked up by an electro magnet, raised and dropped onto an amplified dish leads the inquisitive visitor to the discovery that all that noise is being produced by a pin.

Film - John Coombes