"Deep in the coastal Douglas-fir forest of Hornby Island, home to the rarest and most fragile ecosystems in Canada, art and design studio Daily tous les jours installs Forest Mixer, an artwork that turns spoken messages into evolving harmonies, vibrations, and finally a kind of sonic mulch. Conceived by founders Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat as an encounter with the living systems of the forest, the piece translates human presence into an acoustic cycle of growth and decay,"
"Visitors begin at a low-set microphone, intentionally positioned for accessibility, where they release short spoken messages into the installation. These phrases stretch into harmonies, then slowly turn into crumbling, mulch-like sounds. In the final stage, low-frequency pulses can be felt as vibrations through a platform by sitting, standing, lying down, or simply touching it with a hand. As participants move along soft mulch pathways, the work positions their bodies inside the sensory field of the forest, composed of the scents of cedar and spruce,"
Forest Mixer occupies a coastal Douglas-fir forest on Hornby Island and converts short spoken messages into layered sound that morphs from harmonies into crumbling, mulch-like textures. Accessible low-set microphones invite participants to release phrases that are sonically processed and eventually rendered as low-frequency pulses felt through a platform. Pathways of soft mulch place bodies within a multisensory forest field infused with cedar and spruce scents and the ambient chorus of wildlife. The installation stages an encounter that maps human presence onto cycles of acoustic growth and decay, creating tactile and ecological resonance.
Read at designboom | architecture & design magazine
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]