"polycluster" inhabits the threshold between auditory perception and somatic experience—a sonic architecture built from layered textures that reshape spatial perception in dialogue with the acoustics of its environment. The composition plays with auditory masking and negative space, allowing silence and resonance to become as significant as sound itself. Distorted whispers, deep sub-bass drones, and textural noise interact unpredictably, evoking the sensation of something perpetually just out of reach.
polycluster I.—X. , for IKO and electronics, 2025
As these sculptural textures evolve over time, they form temporary constellations—regions of density that accumulate and disperse across the IKO's icosahedral speaker array. The IKO's geometry enables non-hierarchical spatial distribution, allowing multiple sonic focal points to coexist simultaneously, each pulling the listener's attention in competing directions. Sound is treated as malleable material—shaped, displaced, and reconfigured through precise spatial interplay.
"polycluster" unfolds as a hybrid sonic space where multiple agencies and overlapping realities converge. Here, XR becomes not merely a technological frame but an invitation to reconsider how we listen, how we share presence, and how we coexist within shifting perceptual fields. The work emphasises the physicality of sound and its structural relationship to time, sculpturality, and emptiness. The listener navigates between presence and void, engaging with what is sensed rather than explicitly heard—a polycluster of simultaneous, decentralised experience where boundaries dissolve and attention itself becomes the architecture.
2025 vo.I. - V. ZiMMT Leipzig 2025 vol.V. - X CMMR symposium London
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