ID: 039

    ORDER OF SOUND

    2021 FRANKFURT A. M. - oper frankfurt

    Order of Sound – Generative media art installation visualizing and sonifying urban electromagnetic fields through real-time architectural simulations.
    christos voutichtis

    description

    “Order of Sound” is a work of New Media and generative art. At the same time, it operates as an intervention in urban space, a pointed commentary on architecture, and an inquiry into how natural phenomena are perceived audiovisually and translated into the shaping of the built environment. The installation brings art and science into relation, rendering tangible phenomena that normally lie beyond the range of direct experience and conscious perception.

    At the core of the project is the investigation and analysis of electromagnetic fields generated by both human activity and natural processes. Data captured on site are processed through custom-developed hardware and software and translated in real time into abstract architectural simulations. In this sense, “Order of Sound” functions as a research instrument: a device capable of recording and preserving the specific electromagnetic “signature” of different urban environments.

    Beyond this analytical dimension, the work contributes to the audification and visualization of environmental stress within the critical zone. This stress is produced by invisible electromagnetic waves associated with the continued expansion of infrastructures and the increasing density of urban environments. The installation opens a perceptual threshold onto a domain that has yet to be mapped, a kind of metaphorical wormhole into a parallel universe that observes and questions our sensory habits, emotional responses, democratic processes, and technological infrastructures.

    INFO

    YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2021
    MATERIALS:
    acrylic ELEMENTS, MOTOR, PICKUPS

    TYPE OF WORK: SOUND INSTALLATION / RESEARCH 


    SHORT DESCRIPTION

    ORDER OF SOUND IS A MULTIPART WORK SITUATED WITHIN THE FIELDS OF SOUND AND GENERATIVE ART. IT INVESTIGATES ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS GENERATED BY BOTH ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL PHENOMENA, TRANSLATING THE RESULTING DATA INTO IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURES IN REAL TIME.


    institutional support

    Musikfonds e. V.,  BBK Berlin, Hessische Kulturstiftung, Schauspiel Frankfurt


    Additional support

    ABLETON, musikelectronic geithain gmbh, RME, YAMAHA, mackie, Great Scott Gadgets


    RELATED

    SOLO SHOWS: SAASFEE PAVILLON, WIMA LODZ
    GROUP SHOWS: LOCKDOWN ART AND CRISIS, MAKING CRISIS VISIBLE 


    PRESS

    F.A.Z, DESIGNBOOM, MONOPOL, SCHIRNMAG