Alix CROWE

Night Music Box

plywood, recycled steel, shelf pins, streetsweeper parts

Night Music Box installed in Eden Unearthed, Sydney, 2021 (images: Brian Rapsey)

Night Music Box is an interactive artwork that invites viewers to play the star map of the sky above them. Crafted almost entirely out of recycled materials, it has been intricately engineered to convert stars into sound.

As the ‘music box’ plays, the audience is immersed in both the artwork and the environment around them, becoming aware of the infinite expressions of music that exist within the phenomenal, natural world. The cosmos becomes a living, breathing moment that we may witness, should we simply pause to listen.

Alix is an emerging multidisciplinary artist living and working on the land of the Gayemagal people of Eora/Sydney. She is currently completing an honours thesis in particle physics at UNSW, and her art practice explores the intersections between science and art: she examines the detached, micro-focused realm of science and applies it to the macro domain of human nature, identity and culture. In her work Alix often engages with recycled material and found objects, and aims to render concepts of physics as physical experiences by immersing viewers in a particular sensation or moment.

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