An immersive musical experiment where sound perception, neural response, and harmonic resonance converge to create a unique, listener-shaped experience – revealing the world understood through vibration, fluctuation, and harmony.
An experimental musical project engaging in a dialogue with historical paradigms of sound perception, in which the listener’s individual perception and the nervous system’s responses to harmonic phenomena become the space where the final form of the piece is shaped—unique to each audience member.
The harmonic fabric of the performances intertwines the voices of a polyphonic choir with a dense synthetic texture generated by unevenly tempered synthesizers, merging with the given acoustics of the space into a coherent whole, from which individual elements can no longer be distinguished.
The listener is left amidst the constant variability of components – pulsating structures in which meaning is formed by their own sensitivity, as the brain continuously seeks out patterns and meanings, decodes reality, and remains in a constant process of analysis and synthesis; somewhere between what is spoken, what is heard, and its afterimage.
The mind fills in what is missing. This is particularly evident in darkness. Visual stimulation accounts for 70% of the stimuli we process daily [source]. The brain is so dependent on this form of input that when deprived of it, it compensates – supplements, imagines, completes.
We read the world through its fluctuations. Every stimulus is a wave, and a wave—whether acoustic or electromagnetic – is a disturbance. It is only through this disturbance that we are able to comprehend anything about the world, to decode it – each in our own way.
Through auditory stimuli, we interpret not only the spatial location of a sound (the position of its source), but also—via the processing of overtones—we read its timbre. Though overtones may seem irrelevant, the brain is tuned to decode the information embedded in the harmonic series, a capacity acquired already in the womb, as we learn to recognize the timbre of our mother’s voice (evolutionary psychology). A phenomenon that confirms this ability to decode reality through sound is the missing fundamental frequency: even when the fundamental tone is removed, it is still perceived as an auditory impression – reconstructed by the brain based on higher harmonics. We understand the world through harmony.
