A sound
installation exploring the audiovisual perceptual properties of sonic particles
through light, sound, and movement. Glissons, grainlets, trainlets,
pulsars and wavelets disturbe the
time-space architectural configurations generating a cybernetic sonic
environment. By experiencing the different stages of sound as
wave-particle entity through diffracting patters, ecological and
phenomenological intra-actions
emerge between material, bodies, space, and time.
It consists of a cybernetic
environment of sonic particles that act as its constituent agents. Speaker
cones are tied to tense nylon strings that vibrate with low frequencies of the
different sonic particles which are visible through light diffractions of
raster grid patterns.
The two
main rooms in the gallery will be physically separated and will interact
between each other via a main computer that controls the actions of the two
different parts of the installation. One of the spaces consist of hanging
grated panels, four speaker cones with a UV-painted nylon wire attached to the ceiling,
and a UV light Rod in the center.
Through the grates and the light configurations, the audience is able to
perceive the particle-wave dualities of sound, which allows the viewer to peek
inside the movement of the inner space.
On the
second space speaker cones are tied to
tense nylon strings that vibrate with low frequencies of the different sonic
particles. In order to make these vibrations visible, raster patterns are
projected on a wall behind them, so that the light diffractions reinforce the
effect of the vibrating string. Through their translation to the kinetic and
visual realm, the sonic particles are made perceptible.
The
installation is inspired by quantum entanglement, a phenomenon in which the
characteristics of atomic particles are interdependent regardless of the
distance from one another, creating a “spooky action at a distance.” Karen
Badar’s proposes a post-human account of quantum entanglement, in which
phenomena and systems intra-act and resulting in emergent agency. Through
immersive sonic experiences in parallel spaces, Multifractions explores
entangled phenomena between human and non-human agents. The result is a sonic
system where agents intra-act with each other to sonically enact themselves in
an immersive environment.
