All tongues are moving, but we don’t hear them all

2023

performing time-specific sound installation



All tongues are moving, but we don’t hear them all is a time-based, site-responsive sound installation. At its center lies a metal pond into which ice melts from above. Each water drop transforms the plate’s resonance: hydrophones and a sensor detect shifts in water levels and acoustics, translating changes into a soundscape.

As the ice melts and rust forms, the installation performs a choreography of decay, tuning into silence and what slips the audible. Through bio-asemic rust, the installation meditates on the processes of language and the hierarchies of silence inscribed in bodies and materials.

With an interest in materials that dissolve individuality and reproduce themselves as bodies of multiplicity, the work presents a form that exists between categories and linguistic binaries—opening a space where language leaks.