‘The sound of empty space’, An Art Installation Exploring the Harmonic Sounds of Feedback

The sound of empty space is an art installation by Montreal-based composer Adam Basanta that explores the harmonic sounds created when feedback is generated between microphones, speakers, and their environment. The exhibit features multiple scenarios, including a rotating microphone, and–in the case of The loudest sound in the room experienced very quietly–a mic, PA system, and a speaker cone all enclosed inside a soundproof aquarium.

Through pieces which are equal parts banal, inventive, and absurd, sound is revealed not as a distinct object or autonomous event, but rather as a mutable product of interdependent networks of physical, cultural and economic relations.

The loudest sound

The loudest sound

The loudest sound

The loudest sound

images via Adam Bansanta

via The Creators Project

Brian Heater
Brian Heater