CHORA
Sound Sculpture, 2025
CHORA is a semi-autonomous sound sculpture that generates an acoustic sonic experience. Through the striking and rubbing of a singing bowl, it explores the materiality of sound as physical vibration and resonance. It can be seen as an acoustic form of a record player, in which the singing bowl takes the role of the rotating disc.
CHORA behaves as a breathing, deviating, and hesitant entity. The motion is sometimes uneven, and it occasionally pauses. These "errors" are not failures; they make this machine different from the way humans play. CHORA also becomes a gesture of resistance to a highly computational and virtualized AI present, where the unpredictable physicality of vibration insists on a kind of presence that cannot be fully simulated by technology. By blending mechanical sounds with acoustic vibrations, CHORA creates a hybrid sonic space where silence becomes perceptible, and “noise” is no longer noise, but as part of the structure.
CHORA is a semi-autonomous sound sculpture that generates an acoustic sonic experience. Through the striking and rubbing of a singing bowl, it explores the materiality of sound as physical vibration and resonance. It can be seen as an acoustic form of a record player, in which the singing bowl takes the role of the rotating disc.
CHORA behaves as a breathing, deviating, and hesitant entity. The motion is sometimes uneven, and it occasionally pauses. These "errors" are not failures; they make this machine different from the way humans play. CHORA also becomes a gesture of resistance to a highly computational and virtualized AI present, where the unpredictable physicality of vibration insists on a kind of presence that cannot be fully simulated by technology. By blending mechanical sounds with acoustic vibrations, CHORA creates a hybrid sonic space where silence becomes perceptible, and “noise” is no longer noise, but as part of the structure.