Ghost talk, Making sound, Language?

Ghost talk, Making sound, Language?
2026
Exhibition Design, Interactive Garmant, Sound, Performance

Veillée, Tetterode / M4gastaterlier, 2026

The work centers on a wearable sensor-based MIDI controller embedded in a performative garment inspired by Korean traditional mourning attire (so-bok). The body functions as an interface, with movement generating and modulating spatial sound in real time. Developed for the historic Tetterode Building in Amsterdam — originally an early 1900s printing factory and later transformed into a self-organized artists’ collective — the live sound composition responds to the building’s layered histories of industrial production and autonomy.

In dialogue with Iza Koczanowska’s installation, the performance translates architectural memory, residual mechanical rhythms, and present-day artistic presence into spatial resonance. Around the central chimney, smoke and sound circulate as a transitional axis between inside and outside, past and present. Framed as a speculative “ghostly smart system,” the work imagines an AI of 1902 in which early industrial machinery and contemporary sensing technologies intra-act. Veillée reactivates the tradition of evening listening as a site-responsive ritual.

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