Intona Documentation
Intona-dismantling
(2) Dismantling: the membrane of a microphone is removed with a small surgical knife
Intona-plunging
(7) Plunging: a microphone hangs in a container that is slowly filled with water until the microphone is completely submerged
Intona-boiling
(11) Boiling: a microphone is slowly lowered into a glass distiller flask filled with boiling water
Intona-speaker-burning
The performance ends with the burning of both large, unframed loudspeakers that reproduced the sounds of the microphones
Intona-burning
(5) Burning: the front of a microphone is slowly pulled to the fierce flame of a gas-burner until it is completely burned
Intona-drilling
(1) Drilling: the mantle of a microphone is drilled open by a electric miniature hand-drill
Intona-exploding
(12) Exploding: the head of a microphone is blown up with explosives. The performance ends with the burning of both large, unframed loudspeakers that reproduced the sounds of the microphones.
Intona-flatting
(8) Flatting: a microphone is crushed exceedingly slowly by a specially constructed flatter
Intona-blowing
(9) Blowing: the membrane of a microphone is blown away by concentrated pressurized air of three bar
Intona-dissolving
(6) Dissolving: the membrane of a microphone is dissolved by methylene chloride from a drip
Intona-crushing
(10) Crushing: a microphone and a playing walkman are placed on a slab of concrete and are crushed in one blow by a falling metal weight of 20 kilograms
