The Sound Before You Make It, a museum inspired display relating to Michael Jackson created in 2005 by Australian artists David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton. The sound before you make it, 2005, kinetic sculpture, (video, 8 second loop). Wood, plastic, paint, motor, strobe light, sensor, sound sampled from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video (1983)

“Remixing a scene from Michael Jackson’s Thriller, this work employs the technology of the zoetrope; animating three-dimensional figures via the sequencing of movement and a strobe light to create the illusion that the disk is stationary and the zombies are dancing.”