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"This is the Word" - A glimpse into everyday transmutations between sound, music, visuals, and text, across physical and digital realms













The installation took place at the Irish World Academy, 6 June, for 4 hours. It attempted to explore how sound, music, text, and visuals - in all their forms of manifestation - are interconnected, and how they affect and transmute (into) one another, in and across physical and digital realms. To capture a glimpse into these interconnections and transmutations, various digital media and physical objects were carefully crafted and chosen for the installation space: paintings, drawings, books, natural and man-made objects, digital sounds, music and visuals. The aim of the installation was to show that the focus does not have to be on a particular object, medium, tool, or an art piece (even though they each may function on their own), but that they all may be interwoven into a potentially endless, ever-expanding multimodal/cross-modal organism - similarly to watercolours in a painting, that keep evolving and changing until they are dry.


Photos and video by the fantastic Maurice Gunning and Scott Robinson - thank you so much!





the log has something to TELL you






When you pick up the phone, you can hear what the log has to say (included in the video). Beside the log and phone you can see The Books of Sȱnȱïïï, the sound beings (some of which can be found further down on this page).

​ All photos by Maurice Gunning





the book of Sȱnȱïïï 1
















Sȱnȱïïï (sing. sȱnȱ) are beings made purely of sound. They are sound, they communicate through sound, their entire existence and modes of behavior are sound-based. Like self-contained narratives, sȱnȱïïï need no further description or clarification, they are all they are already (and yet I am dying to write stories about them). They live by propagating through sound-conductive mediums, they reverberate, then die when the reverberation peters out (depending on the conductivity/reflectivity of the environment). There can be no two identical sȱnȱïïï. I have just begun learning about them, so I don't understand them that well yet, though. I don't have the equipment capable of capturing them sonically, so I convey them through drawings.





The woods conversing with the sea




Cyanotypes, made in Galway and Limerick, Ireland





The sea 1



The woods 1



The sea 2



The woods 2



The woods 3



The sea 3





GRAPHENTITIES






The sea 1



The woods 1



The sea 2



The woods 2



The woods 3



The sea 3





The sea 1



The woods 1



The sea 2



The woods 2



The woods 3



The sea 3





The sea 1



The woods 1



The sea 2



The woods 2



The woods 3



The sea 3





The sea 1



The woods 1



The sea 2



The woods 2



The woods 3



The sea 3





The sea 1



The woods 1



The sea 2



The woods 2



The woods 3



The sea 3





The sea 1



The woods 1



The sea 2



The woods 2



The woods 3



The woods 3



The sea 3



The sea 3





Graphentities exist somewhere between graphemes and organic beings/architecture/topography/objects etc. They can't (or rather won't) decide what they actually are, and they're quite happy that way, existing between multiple media/forms of existence.





water/color






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