round stone, bag of rice, crumpled paper
Interactive Sound Installation
Berlin Universität der Künste Rundgang, 2025
This installation invites a quiet kind of participation. At the center of the space is a low table with a few ordinary objects: a bowl of warm rice, soft fabric, a stone, a plush toy. Each one has its own texture and small sonic potential. These are things that rustle, shift, or hum gently when moved.
Visitors are invited to sit and put on headphones. Each headphone plays a different track. The voices speak softly, like a meandering lecture or a guided daydream. Sometimes they reflect on how we listen with our hands or how memory lives in textures. Sometimes they offer simple instructions. Hold this. Drag it slowly. Press and release.
Everyone hears something different. The instructions don’t align. The room becomes a quiet score made up of individual gestures and shared rhythms. People interact with the materials and the objects respond with soft sound. Some people listen. Some touch. Some observe. Everyone becomes part of the piece.
The space is minimal and warm. Light changes throughout the day and the installation shifts with it. There is no fixed tempo. It moves on its own. It is not about spectacle or symbolism. It is about presence. Being with small things. Letting voice and material guide you into attention.
The work is grounded in sound but moves across senses. It is a space for listening, but not just with the ears. The voice becomes a tactile presence. The materials offer their own kind of language. It is a shared ritual, but loose and personal.
This piece is shaped by a few ongoing questions. How does listening happen through the body. How can simple interactions become forms of care or attention. What does it mean to create a space that holds people gently without telling them exactly what to do.
Inspired by practices of deep listening, soft instruction, and the sensory language of daily life, this work explores the overlaps between touch, sound, and ritual. It invites a moment of quiet relation between hand and material, between voice and surface, between person and presence.
participatory installation with table, tactile objects, 3 mono listening headsets, ambient voice loop, condenser and contact mics feeding into live delay, stereo monitoring system, 2025