Attuning device (2025)

Sound Sculpture

In Attuning Device, a series of glass tubes, translucent and irregular, descend from the ceiling like roots or nerves to hover just below head height. As you approach one of its ends, a sound composition, between harmony and disintegration, emerges. The sounds have been resurfaced from the building’s deeper architecture and ground.

The work draws on Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance as a particular mode of relating to the world, in which something outside oneself affects the subject, elicits a response, and has the potential to transform them.

And Attuning Device creates a space for resonance with others. Through its fragile structure, visitors listen intimately to sounds generated by the architecture and the bodies gathered around it. It asks how we can open ourselves to being affected, or transformed, unpredictably and without control, by sound and by one another.