Sound
Tech Mining – E-Waste Workshop at HEAD
Results from the recent Tech Mining workshop held in March 2025 at HEAD in Geneva. Ran by Benjamin Gaulon, this workshop represents the culmination of two decades of Benjamin's exploration with electronic waste (e-waste) as a resource for art making.
Not I – The voice, identity and the epistemic mirage of machine learning
Not I explores the problematics at the heart of contemporary vocal forensics' use of statistical learning techniques. The work develops a form of investigative aesthetics which seeks to open up the epistemic assumptions that ground the development...
Rosetta – A narrative installation
Rosetta is a narrative installation inspired by the ESA mission of the same name, told from the perspective of the probe itself. The text and custom graphic elaborations alternate on a vertical display whereas the soundtrack incorporates words fro...
Gyro – Self-playing drums suspended in pendulums
Gyro is an interactive installation by Mexico City artist Correo Electrónico (Máximo Campo) that explores the relationship between movement, sound, and audience participation. Comprising five modified snare drums suspended as pendulums, the work r...
Vulcan – Beyond the three-metre threshold
Vulcan is an immersive journey to the heart of telluric powers. It is a tribute to volcanologists and volcanoes, exploring themes such as human smallness and the fascination of the immensity of natural forces.
Continuum Resonance + PolyNodes
Created by Daito Manabe, Continuum Resonance is an installation where autonomous artworks installed in each space of "VS" interact with each other by sharing mathematical algorithms, music programming, and 3D architectural data.
Sonic Imagination – When We Grow Old
Sonic Imagination is a speculative auditive environment that places four scenarios for demographic change in Switzerland until the year 2070 on the Freilager-Platz in Basel. The project investigates the hypothesis that virtual sound sources in med...
Embedded/Embodied – Sound as a means of obtaining knowledge
Embedded/Embodied unites ‘acoustics’ and ‘epistemology’, acoustemology to investigate sound as a means of obtaining knowledge, delving into what can be known through listening.
IIOANA – AQUA PARK (underground demo music video)
Live code-able video synth and coding environment that runs directly in the browser, created by Naoto Hieda in collaboration with Pițipunk singer and artist IIOANA.
A Quickie in the Bouncy House – Pierce Warnecke x Matthew Biederman
Created by Matthew Biederman for the upcoming album by Pierce Warnecke, 'A Quickie in the Bouncy House' is a music video deploying Stable Diffusion to explore the edges of the AI text-to-image, forcing it into SFW corners of its training where it ...
RWM MK1 – Soundscapes of electromagnetic radiation
The RWM MK1 (Radio Wave Modulator Mark 1) is an experimental electronic synthesizer that captures and transforms the constant stream of radio waves and transmissions passing through Earth's atmosphere.
The Ambient Machine – Yuri Suzuki
Created by Yuri Suzuki in partnership with Pentagram Design, and currently available for purchase from E&Y, The Ambient Machine is a 32 toggle switch sequencer with a variety of sounds and music to design your own background ambience.
Blind Camera – Point-and-shoot sound to image
Blind Camera is an AI powered device that generates pictures from sound instead of light while preserving the experience of using a point-and-shoot camera.
Animas – Music co-creation with AI
Anima is an interactive installation that facilitates a musical jam session between humans and machines. Operating much like a sequencer, Anima uses open-source AI algorithms to generate musical sequences.
Light & Sound Synthesis: In Conversation with Amay Kataria
In a world constantly adjusting and adapting to new methods of communication and connection expedited by rapid technological advancements, artist Amay Kataria explores what it means to be human.
Floating Codes – The (spatial) topology of an artificial neural network
'Floating Codes' is a site-specific light and sound installation that explores the inner workings and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks – the fundamental building blocks of machine learning systems or artificial intelligence. The exh...
Material Sequencer – Physical materiality of sound
'Material Sequencer' is an 8-step electromechanical sequencer, designed to emphasise the physical materiality of sound and sound production. The simple usb-powered sound-sculpture takes the sequencing process outside the black box and into the aco...
Latentscape – Franz Rosati
Created by Franz Rosati, 'Latentscape' depicts exploration of virtual landscapes and territories, supported by music generated by machine learning tools trained on traditional, folk and pop music with no temporal and cultural limitations.
Clockwise (2021) – Exploring the subdivision of space and time
Clockwise (2021) is a generative and experimental audiovisual piece that explores the concept of space-time, Zeno's paradoxes related to the infinite subdivision of the units of measurement of space and time, and their experimental abstract audiov...
FORMS – String Quartet
Created by Playmodes, 'FORMS – String Quartet' is a live multimedia performance for a string quartet, electronic music and panoramic visuals, in the field of visual sonification. The project originates from a real-time visual music score generator...
A Natural History of Networks / SoftMachine – A speculation about a heterogeneous technological culture
'A Natural History of Networks / SoftMachine' is an electrochemical algorithmic performance that probes an alternative computational and technological material regime.
Expressions – Paint and pixel matière at micro-scale
Created by Kynd in collaboration with Yu Miyashita (Sound), 'Expressions' is a series of artworks exploring the physicality of thick and bold paint-like dynamic constructs that emerge from illuminated digital space revealing an intricate play of s...
The Welcome Chorus – The voice of a community
Created by Yuri Sizuki (Pentagram) in collaboration with Fish Fabrications and Counterpoint, 'The Welcome Chorus' is an interactive installation that brings together sound, sculpture and artificial intelligence.
Algorithmic Drive – Spectacular car(au)tonomy
'Algorithmic Drive' is an interactive installation and performance inspired by inspired by autonomous cars and dash cam compilations. The work plays with the tension generated by confronting the technologies used by mobile robotics with the unpred...
HALO – Science of nature through the eyes and ears of a technological sublime
HALO is a large scale immersive artwork which embodies Semiconductor’s ongoing fascination with how we experience the materiality of nature through the lens of science and technology.
Electronium – Raymond Scott’s instantaneous performance-composition machine reimagined by Yuri Suzuki
Yuri Suzuki and Pentagram in collaboration with Counterpoint have re-imagined the Electronium - Raymond Scott’s instantaneous performance-composition machine.
Weather Thingy – Real time climate sound controller
Created by Adrien Kaeser at ECAL (Media and Interaction Design Unit), Weather Thingy is a custom built sound controller that uses real time climate-related events to control and modify the settings of musical instruments.
Apparatum – Inspired by the Polish Radio Experimental Studio
Created by panGenerator, "Apparatum" is a custom made apparatus with digital interface that emits purely analogue sound. It is inspired by the heritage of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio – one of the first studios in the world producing elect...
