echodendron

Echodendron is a sonic sculpture consisting of a ring of eight composite polystyrene objects suspended from glowing acrylic rods, connected to a central microphone with glowing tubes.

The piece explores themes of light, sound, time, and persistence. As you approach, the microphone invites you to speak into it. Your words are turned into light traveling down the pole and distributed to the surrounding sculptures. Each mote of light triggers a snippet of your voice, emitted from the objects atop the poles, pulsing in time with the sound. Little granules of sound keep repeating, spinning around you, playing back and forth rhythmically.

After a while, your contribution fades into the whole, and the echodendron recalls little grains of everything it has heard in its lifetime.