In this sound installation, the audience searches voices and songs in a room using electromagnetic detectors.

premiered at Light Box (11/16-11/17/2020) and Spread Arts (11/23-11/24/2020)
Magnets and Ghosts is a part of the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge.

Program

Technology enables us to sense undetectable energy fluctuations; we do not see or feel electromagnetic fields in the air, but machines convert them into signals we can hear. I use electromagnetic transducers, sometimes known as ghost detectors, to create a sound installation that turns a room into a storyteller.
When audiences approach a specific part of a structure with a “ghost detecting device,” they can amplify a voice inaudible with naked ears. The installation has multiple electromagnetic fields embedded in different spots, and the audiences can create a piece of music by discovering these energy fields.

Photo and Video by Chien-An Yuan