DOI [decode/overlay/intermodulate]

Audio-Visual Performance

Our world is fragmented, its structure no longer solid or tangible.
It resists explicit connections and instead exists in soft overlaps, fractured and reassembled by invisible forces. Gaussian Splats – fluid, dissolving data points – distort and stretch the perception of space and time. At the same time, these same spaces resonate in radio waves: signals pulsate, condense, reflect in endless loops from the ionosphere.

The performance DOI [decode/overlay/intermodulate] explores this hyperconnected world – a world in which signals and material structures are inseparably interwoven. The starting point is a digital model of a living root bridge from Meghalaya, India – an example of living architecture, developed over generations through the interaction of people, trees, and time. This model is translated in the performance into a fleeting visual language: Gaussian Splats change in real time with sound, deforming under the influence of found radio signals.

Using a self-built antenna, we capture radio waves across a wide range of frequencies – signals that are constantly altered by atmospheric disturbances and interferences. These are manipulated entirely in analog form, distorted, rewoven – a tribute to the unpredictability of organic processes and the limits of control.

We decode. We overlay. We modulate.

Artists: Marco Pisano and Onur Sönmez Graphics: strobo B M design studio
Assistance: Pauline

Onur Sönmez

Event as part of the exhibition TREES, TIME, ARCHITECTURE! At the Architekturmuseum der TUM Pinakothek der Moderne Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture TUM