CHORA
Sound Sculpture, 2025
CHORA is a meditative, semi-autonomous sound sculpture that creates a purely acoustic sonic experience. It explores the materiality of sound through physical vibration and resonance, primarily by rubbing and striking a singing bowl.
This system is not a precise and stable industrial device, but a breathing, deviating, and hesitant entity. It is not perfect, as it sometimes rubs unevenly and occasionally pauses. But these "errors" are not failures; they make this machine different from the way humans play. The blending of mechanical sounds with acoustic vibrations creates a hybrid sonic space. There, the silence becomes audible, and the so-called "noise" is no longer noise, but part of the structure.
CHORA is a meditative, semi-autonomous sound sculpture that creates a purely acoustic sonic experience. It explores the materiality of sound through physical vibration and resonance, primarily by rubbing and striking a singing bowl.
This system is not a precise and stable industrial device, but a breathing, deviating, and hesitant entity. It is not perfect, as it sometimes rubs unevenly and occasionally pauses. But these "errors" are not failures; they make this machine different from the way humans play. The blending of mechanical sounds with acoustic vibrations creates a hybrid sonic space. There, the silence becomes audible, and the so-called "noise" is no longer noise, but part of the structure.