The Wobble Machines
The Wobble Machines explore sound through movement, using motors and mechanisms to bend metal and transform movement into sound. By combining technology with raw materials such as metal and wood, the work turns mechanical movement into a playful sound experience.
The work started from a fascination with the sound metal plates produce when they bend. This discovery led to the idea of building mechanisms that could recreate this movement and sound without relying on human physical effort.
Eryn Bosma is a multidisciplinary artist who creates with a sense of wonder. Working through a lens in which nothing is fixed, she transforms everyday objects and discarded materials into something entirely new. Often using technology as a playful tool, she reveals the unexpected and explores what else these materials could become.
Her work invites viewers to challenge their perceptions and reimagine the world around them. Rooted in curiosity and play, Eryn’s process allows objects to break free from their intended design and evolve into unexpected new forms.
While The Wobble Machines are first of all a sound installation, Eryn’s thesis research questions and expands their possible purpose. Her thesis explores artistic making in relation to crisis, scarcity and uncertainty. It asks how artists can respond to situations where familiar systems, materials or infrastructures become unstable or unavailable. Rather than seeing scarcity only as a limitation, the research looks at how imagination, resourcefulness and material transformation can open up new possibilities.
Within this context, Eryn imagines The Wobble Machines in a speculative crisis scenario, where their unfamiliar sound could be used to signal, warn, attract attention or create distraction. At the same time, the work remains open-ended. Rather than giving the machines one fixed purpose, The Wobble Machines embrace the questions they raise: what are they, what could they be used for, and what hidden potential might the viewer recognize in them?
