Spatial audio workshop - Sonic Acts Biennial 2024
During the captivating culmination of the Spatial Sound Workshop, ten participants — under the guidance of Ji Youn Kang — presented individual and collective pieces, as well as sound installations, on March 17th, 2024.
“ Extending beyond physical boundaries and incorporating online realms, the participants shared their explorations into audio feedback, ambience, resonances, and the relationship between spatial trajectories and sonic phenomena. The result was a sensory feast, where space itself was transformed into an unconventional musical instrument.” (Re-Imagine Europe)
My work in this workshop resulted in the creation of Mental Spaces, fixed media piece for eight speakers using the sound spatialization’s software WFScollider.
MENTAL SPACES - Multichannel fixed media piece
In the piece, I explored different approaches to sound spatialization depending on the behavior of the sounds used. It unfolds in fragmented episodes, featuring fast movements within the spatialization—noisy sonic textures traveling through the speaker array—and, in contrast, employing precise sound location during moments of calm — not as an endpoint, but as a latent condition that resurfaces.
Mental Spaces explores the mental and emotional tension between the inner noise of thoughts and clarity through awareness. The eight speakers surrounding the audience—and the space created between them—simulates a metaphorical brain that immerses listeners within it. Through spatialization, a virtual architecture of thought emerges: shifting textures and sound
movements that mirror cognitive pattern.The brain becomes an active voice, while the listener is rendered passive—a puppet of the mind.