photophon

looking with your ears, into a room illuminated with sound

Using the principle of Graham Bell's invention "photophone", the installation features
- a direct translation from different sounds into light
- multiple lamp transmission of this optical sound signal and
- a transformation back into sound at the headphones.

all the lights in a room embed sound
the optical multi-speaker setup transmits a multichannel composition, that becomes audible only with our special, light sensor equipped headphones
talking a walk in the sonic landscape – listening into the light tiny movements may cause drastic changes of perspective