Waves in a void
is an interactive sound installation about isolation
and failing contact, against the countless growing number of
communication media.
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Year of production: 2020
Constructed from 18mm Birch MPX
Legs built from steel pipe
3d printed handset.
Digital delay, amplifier and speaker are located in the telephone
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The attempt to call outwards becomes an echo of
yourself and ends in a noise of information. The message has annihilated
itself without ever reaching it's destination.
You can take a seat, make a call, but who's actually listening?
The telephone is the selected communication medium of the past century.
Hardly anything else is so representative for communication, language and
connectivity. You now have the given opportunity to completely submit
yourself to the medium. And if you dare, you enter an almost intimate
connection with the medium. The position which you place yourself awakens
a feeling of shelter and fragility, with the knowledge that your words
could reach the entire globe.
But do you have the courage to speak?
If you do, you will realize that all the promises were just hopes.
Everything you have to say will return and get entagled in a feedback
loop. Re-spoken, re-recorded, re-sent, re-copied - your words find no
termination, become aimless, echoing through you with no sender and no
reciever. And with each repetition a piece of the original is lost,
until only the common information noise of the world remains. You are
both sender and receiver, but who else but yourself have been reached by
your words?
