2026
sound installation, live processing, microphones, feedback, speech
NOISE FOR THE PASSAGE is a live sound installation that listens to the gallery through multiple microphones. Voices, ambient sound, and feedback are processed in real time and distributed through speakers in the hallway space. The work explores how sound moves between meaning, source, and texture. Speech may become fragmented, displaced, delayed, or indistinguishable from noise. Spoken fragments appear and disappear, asking how language is heard, misheard, transformed, or made unstable. Some microphones invite direct participation. Others listen to the surrounding environment. Together, they create a shifting sound field where the room, the audience, and the system affect one another.
mue wu 