Sound and Kinetic Installation

From0

From0 is an interactive, sound-based, and kinetic installation. It invites the visitor to record a sound (a word, a phrase, or a noise) using a microphone. This sound is then broken down into 12 elements, each associated with a pendulum in the installation. Each pendulum swings at a slightly different speed, each one a little slower than the previous one, which transforms the sound into an unexpected and surprising melody.

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The From0 installation highlights the versatile and musical nature of language.
The installation postulates and underlines the instability of any equilibrium, destined to escape control. With From0, harmony slides from order to chaos, and conversely, chaos returns to its original form. From0 progressively deconstructs every signifier to offer it an escape from meaning, highlighting the distance between the concept and the material, musical nature of language. It's the perfect opportunity to hear certain words in a new light, and to plunge ipso facto into a kind of original emotional bath. Hearing the words repeated, gently shifting to let the musicality take hold, and letting yourself sink into it.

From0 is a word composed of the English word 'From' and the letter 'O'. It evokes the starting point, the zero, and at the same time the circle evokes the perfection of the unity of the form and the repeating loop. This unity is deconstructed before our eyes and ears, only to re-emerge a few minutes later when the cycle of phase shifting is complete. The word then becomes intelligible again. From repetition can emerge knowledge, an order. Understanding this order is made accessible through this repetition, this repeated deconstruction.