Between Frequencies - L’étage - Paris - 2025
This sound installation is conceived as a spatial acoustic environment in which sound is distributed through a series of vertical speaker towers positioned across the room on a continuous elevated platform. The work approaches sound as a sculptural medium, using frequency, resonance, silence, and spatial displacement to shape the visitor’s experience.
The composition is built from sine drones, forming a continuous field of pure tones that unfolds through subtle shifts in pitch, intensity, interference, and duration. These sustained frequencies create a dense yet minimal sonic atmosphere, allowing small changes in movement and position to become highly perceptible.
Each tower operates as both a sculptural object and an audio source, forming a calibrated arrangement that activates the architecture through reflection, absorption, and vibration. The elevated platform unifies the installation as a single spatial field while concealing the electrical wiring beneath its surface, preserving the visual clarity of the work. As visitors move through the space, the composition shifts continuously, producing changing sonic relationships according to position, distance, and orientation. The installation invites an embodied mode of listening in which perception is formed through movement within the field of sound.
The project explores the meeting point of sound, structure, and space. The raw materiality of the room amplifies the physical presence of the audio, while the vertical elements establish a measured rhythm across the installation. Together with the platform, these components create an immersive environment in which sound is experienced as a physical and architectural condition.
Technical Information
Medium: Multi channel sound installation
Configuration: Custom speaker columns arranged on a continuous elevated platform
Sound material: Layered sine drones
Audio system: Full range speakers integrated into modular wooden and perforated metal enclosures
Playback: Multi channel audio playback system
Sound composition: Generative or fixed duration composition based on sustained sine tones
Duration: [continuous / 10 minutes]
Control: [computer based playback / audio interface / multichannel controller]
Materials: Plywood, perforated metal, loudspeakers, amplification hardware, audio playback system, elevated platform
Dimensions: Variable according to site
Installation requirements: Power supply, concealed cable routing beneath platform, calibrated speaker placement, controlled acoustic environment
Platform height: 10 cm continuous raised platform
Year: [2025]
Technical section, single speaker box module
Each speaker box is conceived as a modular acoustic enclosure designed to function as both a structural unit within the vertical tower and an individual sound source. The box consists of a plywood carcass with a removable perforated metal facing, enclosing a full range loudspeaker and internal acoustic treatment. Power and audio cabling exit through the bottom of the unit and are routed invisibly beneath the continuous 10 cm elevated platform.
Indicative construction
Structure: 18 mm plywood panels with screwed and reinforced internal joints
Front / side acoustic screen: 2 mm perforated metal panel mounted on stand off fixings
Internal baffle: 18 mm plywood speaker mounting panel
Acoustic lining: 25 mm sound absorbing foam or felt applied to selected internal faces
Speaker: 1 full range driver, centered on internal baffle
Access panel: removable rear or side maintenance panel for speaker and wiring access
Base connection: concealed cable outlet through underside of box aligned with platform void
Finish: natural sealed plywood and raw or powder coated perforated metal
Installation logic
The box is placed directly on the raised platform, which acts as a clean technical plenum for cable management. This allows all electrical and audio wiring to remain hidden while maintaining a minimal visual presence in the gallery space. When stacked vertically, each box aligns structurally and visually with the others to form a continuous speaker tower.
