[I am] Floating in a Room
Responsive sound installation
With Tijs Ham
Acoustic spaces are not a fixed physical reality but are temporal in nature, created and transformed through the sounds that populate them.
Several custom-made miniature FM transmitters suspended in midair by balloons pick up the sounds of visitors. As the space fills with their presence, the transmissions received by radios get processed by custom audio software and redistributed to multiple speakers - feeding back into the room, gradually creating an evolving, uncanny soundscape that is dependent on and responsive to its changing environment.
The installation invites visitors into a lighthearted conversational experience of space and sound. Make a call and you'll get a response. Scream, shout, or just be quiet, but do listen. Was that you... was that me... can you tell?
The work iterates on itself each time it is exhibited - the room, the visitors, the feedback loop always slightly different. A nod to Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting in a Room, this work has the same logic, with a different mechanism.
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