Listening Is Making Sense

sound sculpture (2010)
high chair, audio transducer, audio system
(variable dimensions)

Listening Is Making Sense

The sound sculpture Listening Is Making Sense uses the beams as vectors for the propagation of sound vibrations produced by a real-time audio software and diffused on the wood by a tactile transducer (a speaker that converts the audio signal into mechanical vibration, spread by contact with matter). The only way then to listen to the installation is to get into physical contact with the resonant matter by placing the ear directly on the wood. In the intervention at Casabianca the spectator is invited to an upward movement to place his ear directly on the beam supporting the roof of the building to hear a sound that flows into it.