2025, Electronic Music Performance, 5mins[ X ] CLOSE

breathe

Created for Ars Electronica 2025 — Flood the Zone with Courage

Project Details

breathe is a five-minute auditory piece that decentralizes the future as a solely human experience. The human condition is bound by systems and dominated by the visual. breathe resists this dominance, shifting the center of experience toward sound—toward the non-visual, the non-linguistic, the non-human.

The piece comprises three interwoven layers: spoken-word poetry, binaural synths, and a glitch of the spoken layer. Together, they form a sonic ecology that communicates through frequency, rhythm, and intonation rather than constructed systems or visual codes.

It asks: What would a future—in which humans only play a part of—be like?