Multi-channel sound installation, 2025 Artists participating: ceph, Purpurniy Dyadya, Sergei Komarov & Lidiia Griaznova, Nikita Bugaev, the concept horse This installation is dedicated to the engineers, experimenters, and artists who investigated the connections between sound, technology, and transmission. As Justin Patrick Moore wrote, “Madcap inventors attempted to trace their way through the lines of circuitry to create sounds out of the chaos.” Technologies originally developed for communication—telephony, signal processing, radio transmission, and speech synthesis—were adopted and transformed by musicians and artists into tools for new forms of sound and composition. The project references major 20th-century developments in telecommunications and electronic music: number stations, ham radio, vocoders, and early speech-coding systems, as well as the work of experimental studios such as the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bell Labs, and NHK Japan. It also draws on the 1970s “sound-phreak” culture, particularly Evan Doorbell’s recordings of telephone switching and routing sounds, which document the acoustic environment of early communication systems. The installation consists of custom-made, battery-powered, autonomous speakers—each carrying an individual sound channel within the overall composition. Every artist has their own set of speakers, where each channel functions as a stand-alone piece and simultaneously as part of a collective multi-channel work. Visitors can listen to one artist’s group of speakers or combine them with others, rearranging the units in space, switching them on and off, and shaping new sound combinations in real time. Each configuration generates a different acoustic environment, revealing shifting relationships between signal, interference, and spatial perception. ceph Entropy 5 channels The composition weaves together five melodies recorded on tape loops of varying lengths, telecommunications and radio interference, archival recordings of Claude Shannon’s interviews, telephone conversations, and their synthesized imitations. Its five-channel structure generates a space where independent signals merge and dissolve, hovering at the threshold between transmission and the dissolution of meaning—evoking the sensation of a perpetual decoding process. Drawing on the concepts of the “father of information theory,” this work investigates cryptography, noise, and chaos as sonic materials. The result is a soundscape where entropy becomes music. Purpurniy Dyadya Drum Telegraphy 5 channels The installation explores sound as a medium of communication, grounded in the phenomenon of information transmission. It draws from ancient practices where music and whistling served as carriers of meaning: the whistled language of La Gomera (still in use today), talking drums from Africa and China, water drums of African Pygmies, the Alpine horn, and the Kulintang percussion instrument from Southeast Asia. The work extends these historical precedents into digital terrain, investigating extreme microtonal divisions (up to +500), tempos ranging from 10 to 800 BPM, and the transformative effects of digital overload on sound’s character. Sergei Komarov and Lidiia Griaznova Truth Table 5 channels Listen: 5050130 99 2 9595959592364 Creating my digital garden to end my doomscrolling 0933708709 All I’ve ever tried to do... is good work... and the right thing. That’s all I’ve ever... Bavei D6. 11. 11137 Plus equal Creating my digital garden to end my doomscrolling Truth table: AND NAND OR NOR They have never flinched. I didn’t flinch. All I’ve ever tried to do... is good work... and the right thing. That’s all I’ve ever... If a civilization wants to survive contact with runaway simulations, it must be willing to sacrifice its current definition of humanity. Current humanity equates feeling with value, emotion with rights, communication with consciousness. What about me? Was I for . or against? Creating my digital garden to end my doomscrolling Surplus enjoyment One day I might collapse without any preceding signs—just like my father did. I need to explain it to myself first, because in the coming months I might forget where it came from, and may not even remember that I wrote it. It’s intentional. Echo chambers…Echo chambers….Echo chambers Creating my digital garden to end my doomscrolling 065 065 248 65174 1603 25162 146 before 13020 Nikita Bugaev No Title 4 channels the concept horse MORE MEANINGFUL ALGEBRA 7 channels Drawing on material from the concept horse’s double album MORE MEANINGFUL ALGEBRA (Molt Fluid, 2024), this multi-channel sound installation explores the overlapping range of the polysemous term “ping” – a concept employed in both telecommunication (as a network utility to help pinpoint location) and modular synthesis (as a technique for creating audible sound). Here, presented in seven channels, this work constructs polyrhythmic and a-rhythmic simultaneities, whose exact physical position and angle of interaction can be uniquely arranged and shifted by each listener. Woven within these rhythms are bits of voice and speech sourced from mini-cassettes used in telephone answering machines, linking and interlacing the themes of telecommunication and sound, location and listening, place and displacement, voice and memory.