From0 is an interactive, sound-based, and kinetic installation. It highlights the versatile nature of language. It posits and emphasizes the instability of any balance, destined to escape all control. With From0, harmony slides from order to chaos, and conversely, chaos returns to its original form. The installation progressively deconstructs each signifier, offering it an escape from meaning, highlighting the distance between concept and the material and musical nature of language. It is an opportunity to hear certain words in a new light and, ipso facto, to immerse oneself in a kind of primal emotional bath. Hearing the words repeated, gradually shifting to let the musicality settle, and letting oneself flow with it.
From0 is a word composed of the word "From" and the letter "O." It evokes the starting point, zero, while the circle symbolizes the perfection of unity in form and the repeating loop. This unit is deconstructed before our eyes and ears, only to reappear a few minutes later, when the phase-shifting cycle is complete. The word then becomes intelligible again.
From0 invites the visitor to record a sound (a word, a phrase, or a noise) using a microphone. This word is then broken down into 12 elements, each associated with a pendulum in the installation. Each pendulum swings at a slightly different speed, each one a little slower than the previous one, which transforms the sound into an unexpected and surprising melody. It offers an interface that allows interaction with the pendulums. Each pendulum can be isolated by pressing the button corresponding to it. Another button stops the gradual shift to loop the current musical sequence. Combined button presses allow the freezing of a rhythm in its current state, enabling the creation of a unique music loop that can be repeated. Finally, a potentiometer allows switching from the vocal sample to its musical synthesis.
From0 is an interactive, sound-based, and kinetic installation. It highlights the versatile nature of language. It posits and emphasizes the instability of any balance, destined to escape all control. With From0, harmony slides from order to chaos, and conversely, chaos returns to its original form. The installation progressively deconstructs each signifier, offering it an escape from meaning, highlighting the distance between concept and the material and musical nature of language. It is an opportunity to hear certain words in a new light and, ipso facto, to immerse oneself in a kind of primal emotional bath. Hearing the words repeated, gradually shifting to let the musicality settle, and letting oneself flow with it.
From0 is a word composed of the word "From" and the letter "O." It evokes the starting point, zero, while the circle symbolizes the perfection of unity in form and the repeating loop. This unit is deconstructed before our eyes and ears, only to reappear a few minutes later, when the phase-shifting cycle is complete. The word then becomes intelligible again.
From0 invites the visitor to record a sound (a word, a phrase, or a noise) using a microphone. This word is then broken down into 12 elements, each associated with a pendulum in the installation. Each pendulum swings at a slightly different speed, each one a little slower than the previous one, which transforms the sound into an unexpected and surprising melody. It offers an interface that allows interaction with the pendulums. Each pendulum can be isolated by pressing the button corresponding to it. Another button stops the gradual shift to loop the current musical sequence. Combined button presses allow the freezing of a rhythm in its current state, enabling the creation of a unique music loop that can be repeated. Finally, a potentiometer allows switching from the vocal sample to its musical synthesis.
From0 was supported by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Superbe (BE) crafts living artworks where objects, sounds, and rhythms converge—ephemeral moments of wonder, connection, and poetry. Unexpected and accessible, they strike the right chord—right where it feels good.
Superbe (BE) crafts living artworks where objects, sounds, and rhythms converge—ephemeral moments of wonder, connection, and poetry. Unexpected and accessible, they strike the right chord—right where it feels good.
From0 is an interactive sound installation exploring the instability of language and the malleability of memory. Visitors speak into a microphone—offering a word, phrase, sound, or a noise of sort —which is then broken into fragments and distributed across twelve pendulums. Each pendulum swings at a slightly different rhythm, stretching, repeating, and distorting the input into a haunting, playful, and ever-evolving sonic patterns. As words lose their original form and meaning through repetition and recombination, the piece reflects on how language unravels, slips, and reforms. From0 deconstructs the voice to reconstruct it within a new field of audible intelligibility—an act that might become a cyclical, nonlinear nature of memory and perception. The work embraces loss of control as a generative force, allowing something unanticipated and novel to emerge.
From0 is an interactive sound installation exploring the instability of language and the malleability of memory. Visitors speak into a microphone—offering a word, phrase, sound, or a noise of sort —which is then broken into fragments and distributed across twelve pendulums. Each pendulum swings at a slightly different rhythm, stretching, repeating, and distorting the input into a haunting, playful, and ever-evolving sonic patterns. As words lose their original form and meaning through repetition and recombination, the piece reflects on how language unravels, slips, and reforms. From0 deconstructs the voice to reconstruct it within a new field of audible intelligibility—an act that might become a cyclical, nonlinear nature of memory and perception. The work embraces loss of control as a generative force, allowing something unanticipated and novel to emerge.