2025

Corrugated steel pipes, aluminum control boxes (each: 11cm x 84cm x 6cm), Arduinos, ToF sensors, ESP32 microcontrollers, speakers.

Audio: electrical interference, birdsong

10 corrugated steel pipes, each 10 metres long, fan out from their control boxes, twisted together and entangled like limbs or tentacles.

From the open ends of each pipe, electrical interference and birdsong can be heard. The sound is that of an old fuse box, where the microphone captured not only the crackle and hum of electricity but also birdsong — an unexpected encounter. Each pipe is fitted with a time-of-flight sensor, a microcontroller and a small speaker. Together they attenuate and/or amplify the sound, causing it to constantly shift as it adapts to the bodies it encounters, flowing around them as it circulates throughout the installation. Siren then is in constant motion, while at the same time perfectly still. It sits between the body, and its larger environment and systems, as well as between personal and public spaces.

A massive thank you to Paul Magee for all the help with the electronics 🩶 And to Maria Fiedler for the Logic Pro support ❤️