CHORA
Sound Sculpture, 2025
CHORA is a meditative, semi-autonomous sound sculpture that generates a purely 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. By blending mechanical sounds with acoustic vibrations, CHORA creates a hybrid sonic space. Within this space, silence becomes perceptible, and “noise” is no longer noise, but as part of the structure.
CHORA is a meditative, semi-autonomous sound sculpture that generates a purely 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. By blending mechanical sounds with acoustic vibrations, CHORA creates a hybrid sonic space. Within this space, silence becomes perceptible, and “noise” is no longer noise, but as part of the structure.