On the other hand, it can amplify what you do. But it has huge repercussions. Sawyer talks about how she's not the first artist interested in technology. She says the piece is evocative of the Futurists and Dadaists, who were known to make the instruments used in their scores. She was also interested in Francis Picabia who made portraits of people composed of machines.
Sawyer points to the wooden patterns, and mentions that they are also used in the piece.
Earlier in this century, artists were expounding the utopian possibilities of the machine. Then came disillusionment. The mechanized movement is no longer seen as utopian. In the '20s and '30s, we were told that the machine would liberate us. That's not at all what happened.