Artist Statement

Sound can be a tool for physically capturing the human body. This work seeks to investigate something we are largely unconscious of in our daily lives—our very presence—through the use of acoustic response. A number of pipes of different lengths suspended within a space each contain a microphone and are equipped with a freely movable speaker assembly beneath them. The distance between each speaker assembly and microphone is expressed in the “howling” acoustic response. Having divided the space with pipes, moving This series of phenomena seeks to make audible the normally inaudible material of space. Moreover, this work goes beyond transforming sound into information or data to imagine its exploration through a physical filter. This work employs space itself as an acoustic material representing people’s physical presence and makes it possible to experience a series of musical works by understanding the transformation of spatial properties as musical performance.

• Mad Ohno is a Japanese sound artist and researcher, based in Tokyo. She composes with matter to explore the boundary between the natural and the artificial, which is becoming increasingly blurred around us. She reinterprets natural elements and processes from post-anthropocentric view and harnesses the unexplored potentials of matter for her sonic and visual expression. Her practice represents the interdisciplinary explorations of co-composition between natural and artificial matter as otherworldly phenomena, by integrating current theories and methodologies in art, design, science, and philosophy. Her works have been exhibited and performed in public, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Science Gallery London, EMPAC New York, SARC Belfast, and Centro Cultural FIESP Sao Paulo. She has been awarded Sound and Music Embedded with Cafe OTO in the UK, the Jury Selection of Japan Media Arts Festival, and others. Alongside her practice, she is currently working towards a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. She graduated with an MA in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Creativity in Music and Sound from Tokyo University of the Arts. mariohno.com