- Installations, Sound art
Invisible walk (2024)
By art matters museum, ‘Prosodic grains’, Hangzhou, China. November 2024 – March 2025.
4-channel loudspeaker installation, motion sensors, electronics, programming and sound recordings of shallow water, fallen leaves, wet floor and seashore pebbles.
Dimensions variable.
Photos by Liuliu Jiang.
Description
Installed at the entrance of the show ‘Prosodic grains’, the sound installation ‘Invisible walk’ surprises visitors by producing an audio illusion of footsteps on several natural terrains, as they walk on the ‘polished’ and totally different museum floor.
A series of motion sensors on the sides of the installation detect visitors footsteps and trigger real-time playback of sound recordings through a 4-channel loudspeaker system. The sound recordings include many clips of the artist’s own footsteps on shallow water, fallen leaves and seashore pebbles.
Reproduced in high accuracy with the visitors footsteps and with random variations, the playback creates a pretty convincing and highly interactive audio illusion.