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"Still in sound" is an interactive sound experience that explores how sound connects to memory, emotion, and the act of letting go. Rooted in the belief that sound doesn’t just fill space, it leaves a trace, this experience invites participants to move inward, listen closely, and reflect through touch, voice, light and vibration. Across the space, you will encounter sounds that ripple across water, lights that shift with your voice, and paper that dances with music. Each interaction is a moment of expression that is tactile, warm, and personal. As you move through, a quiet sense of relief begins to settle, like exhaling a thought you didn’t know you were holding. The design is minimal yet sensory, inviting slow observation, comfort, and introspection. Through this journey, sound becomes more than something we hear. It becomes something we carry, shape, and leave behind. These rooms don’t just respond to you — they remember you.
This project began as a quiet sitting with myself — with the thoughts, silences, and spaces that often go unnoticed. When I started sitting in silence, during odd hours, and let go of sounds around me and started observing, I was able to welcome to more to hear. My body is a vessel, just like any other room, full of space and pauses. In those pauses, I began to listen more closely — not just to sound, but to what it leaves behind, resonance.
These rooms became an extension of that internal space — places where absence wasn’t something to fear, but something to explore, to allow more to enter. I started to notice how we often try to fill spaces, not just with sound, but with memory, and connection, things that are residual.
Still in Sound became a response to that reflection. A series of quiet, sensory experiments designed to hold space for what we remember, what we carry, and what we’re ready to let go of. These rooms offer a gentle pause — by end of which, you leave a little lighter, carrying something that feels like a piece of you.
In the centre of the room, a mirror-finished dish of water trembles under the vibrations of unseen speaker. A hanging warm light casts intricate ripples onto the ceiling, turning musical tones into dancing water. This becomes a mesmerising sight relax and watch. As different frequencies play, the surface shifts—waves pulse, dance, and collide. As the water splitters and splatters it reveals the hidden geometries of sound, Hence cymatics. This is a space for quiet observation, where visitors get mesmerised as they watch sound. The reflection of water on the ceiling and walls creates a hypnotic effect, a moment of stillness where noise becomes pattern. It is a meditation on form and vibration—an intimate connection between sight and sound, chaos and control, noise and beauty.
A living wall that listens and responds—this installation invites touch, turning fingertips into sound. Piezo discs embedded in the surface turn delicate touch into sounds and tones, making the door or wall feel alive and inviting. As viewers explore, different parts of the wall produce different sounds, creating a spontaneous composition. The interaction is intimate and immediate—an audible conversation between viewer and wall/ door. The wall absorbs energy and releases it as vibrations and hence sounds, offering a moment of presence. It transforms passive observation into engagement, encouraging participants to understand the energy that awaits them and feel sound rather than just hear it. In this moment, the wall is no longer static—it sings back.
The room listens. As participants speak, their voices are recorded and played back into the space, over and over, until only the room itself remains. Words dissolve, stripped away from their initial meaning by virtue of tonalities and resonance of the room, leaving behind pure tones— formed by music in that room. This is a space for relieving heavy thoughts and unresolved emotions are reshaped into harmonies. It is a ritual, where walls absorb, transform, and return new sound. The longer you speak, the less you hear yourself, until finally, only the voice that remains is the room’s resonance—soft, ethereal, and calming. With the participants patience, the room take your voice and sings back to you.
A beam of light bends to sound, its flickering path etching vibrations onto the walls. A small mirror glued to a stretched rubber membrane, which vibrates. This is the journey of voice, where each voice, whisper, and breath reshape the choreography of the laser beam. As participants speak into the device, their voices ripple outward, leaving behind a short trail of shifting light. A single phrase on the wall—empty at first—slowly fills with motion, each voice modulation bending the laser into something new. This interaction transforms voice into light, revealing sound as energy. It is not just heard, but seen—floating, breaking, reforming, until silence restores the stillness.
A suspended pen hovers over a piece of paper, which is restless at first, waiting for sound to set it in motion. Participants choose a song—a favourite song or a deeply personal song—and watch as vibrations from a hidden speaker make the paper dance. Without control, the pen moves freely, leaving behind unpredictable strokes—an artwork shaped entirely by sound. The participants get to choose from a bunch of different types of pens, some a fine tipped and some blot really quickly. This is a moment of relief, where music’s unseen force is made tangible, captured forever in ink. Each squiggly lines is unique and When participants leave, they take more than just a piece of paper; a beautiful abstract memorabilia from a simple song or recording. When participants leave, they take more than just a piece of paper—they take proof that they felt something. Hopefully feeling lighter.