A I R
What could be the material imagination of air? Sound is one of the principle ways in which air, which cannot be seen, may be imagined. For air is the carrier of sound and, as such, almost always implicated in the thought of sound. It is sound in air, the sounded and sounding air, that our hearing has evolved to detect and that provides a reference for much of our thinking about music. In this sense, all musical compositions are airs, and all musical instruments wind instruments. (Steve Connor 2007 ‘Sound and the Pathos of the Air’).
‘AIR’FINITE’ is a performative sound sculpture realised in 2024 as an 8 channel sound installation at Frei-Raum.Berlin.
It transforms air into a tangible and dynamic medium through an ensemble of weather balloons, each equipped with reeds and played via a custom-built electro-mechanical system.
The balloons, normally used as scientific tools, are repurposed as musical instruments and sculptural objects symbolizing both the beauty and fragility of air. In constant act of morphing and reshaping , through deflation of the balloons and the corresponding sonic transformation we witness air becoming both audible and visually graspable.
This piece explores the finiteness of air—the very substance we breathe – and engages with the idea of air as a HYPEROBJECT—a concept from speculative realism that refers to systems so vast and complex that they transcend our usual modes of understanding. ‘Air’Finite’ may encourage us to reflect on concepts of environmental fragility, air pollution, and the increasingly precarious relationship between humans and the natural world.



Dec 2024 , Premiere at frei-raum.berlin, solo exhibition
Feb 2025 , part of group exhibition ‘8ight’ in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
NEXT : TBC June 2025 – AIR OPERA , a sonic play of automated wind instruments , algorithm, voice and space. Berlin
S O L A R
Informed by the speculative theory Novacene of environmentalist and writer James Lovelock –
An installation of 3 robotic agents which are powered by the sun and sonically reactive to the environmental changes proved the potential of solar power to synthesise sounds. Solar Bugs are modular and mobile synths played by an ever fluctuating sunlight , responding to the rotations of the earth or changes in the weather .
Installed at “Radical Playgrounds’ (Gropius Bau) , Berliner Festspiele
July 2024


