Chromasonic-Field Study
An experimental light and sound installation composed of repeated translucent scrims laid out to create a series of rooms and interstitial spaces. Each of the four rooms (nodes) in this multi-layered experiential
environment is activated by a single source of sound or light at any given time. The installation uses Chromasonic Refrequencing, a real-time translation of light frequencies to sound, and sound frequencies to light, in effect making light
audible or sound visible.
Multi-spectral sequences undulate between revealing the space entire, and enveloping visitors in localized color and sound, creating the perception of spatial elasticity. Participants experience themselves either fully contained in an opaque color-sound space, or connected to other areas within the installation by the mere manipulation of light and sound. Visitors experience each other fluctuating between appearing fully present, as ghosted silhouettes, or seemingly disappearing. The spatial fluidity engages participants in a continuous flow of perceptual activation and adjustment by rendering them in solid, diffused, and dematerialized states.
As a sensory catalyst, the installation is an opportunity to ponder presence individually and in community with others. It is an occasion to notice how our experience of a constantly shifting environment shapes the perspective of what we see and what we don’t see. Chromasonic – Field Study, in its physically and perceptually immersive layering, creates an awareness of the momentary reality we are able to perceive at any given time, grounding us in presence.
The installation at the Lab serves as a study for the development of Chromasonic - Sensory Field, a large-scale installation comprised of up to forty nodes and planned to be first exhibited later this year. The artists will introduce and test different sequences during the run of the exhibition to examine how that impacts the experience within the context of the four full-scale nodes installed at the Lab.
Chromasonic – Field Study 2022, 20’ x 20’ x 9’6”, Aluminum, scrim, with Chromasonic Refrequence
About Chromasonic
Chromasonic started as a collaborative art studio and research lab founded by installation and multi-media artist Johannes Girardoni with sound artists and musicians Orpheo McCord and Joel Shearer in 2018. Chromasonic creates large-scale, polysensory installations to explore non-ordinary states of consciousness through the development of organic technologies that harmonize light and sound frequencies in immersive communal environments.
The studio proposes its work as an experimental disruption to the attention monopolizing effects of the mainstream technologies that have permeated our culture. Fusing science with art in light and sound, the studio embraces an ethical use of technology to integrate natural and artificial cognition. Chromasonic explores the potential of art as a catalyst to harmonize cognitive and somatic states.
Chromasonic installations are synesthetic experiences where participants see sound and hear light through real-time frequency mapping the studio refers to as Chromasonic Refrequencing. The melding of sensory modalities blurs boundaries between physical and perceived realities, suspending participants in time and space, in-situ, to inspire a radical state of presence. Grounded in eliciting an awareness of your perception – an awareness of awareness – the work can create a foundation for new connections to self and others. Chromasonic installations, and the networked platforms the studio is working on for the future, are intended to benefit the public at large.
Read: Chromasonic Helps Find a Radical State of Presence
Cultured article on Chromasonic's work 11.9.2021