Sound performance - 2024
FM transmitters, FM receivers.
The architecture of a place plays a role in its acoustics: walls, their shapes, materials, volumes and surfaces sculpt silence by bringing out certain frequencies. A harmony can be created from these frequencies, revealing the intrinsic musical nature of a place. By the same phenomenom, architecture produces resonances and interferences that sculpt radio waves, albeit imperceptible to human perception.
Implicit systems is a performance that plays on this double resonance: acoustic and radio. FM transmitters are placed within a space, each broadcasting a harmony composed in-situ with the frequencies of the site's architectural resonances. These radio waves, inaudible by nature, are revealed by switching on radios in the electromagnetic field created. By moving the radios through space, the physical reality of radio waves is revealed. The invisible topology of the waves broadcast by the transmitters gradually appears, sketching out an electromagnetic sculpture. The performance superimposes radio architecture and acoustic resonance to reveal this underlying and implicit double system, unique to the venue.