db

db is an intense, spatial sound installation in a totally dark anechoic chamber and is intended to quite physically explode the senses of the individual viewer. Using the highest and lowest frequencies that human ears can bear, db is a hyper-dense composition of sine waves, white noise and other elements, which blurs the lines between noise and music, thought and matter. The visual equivalent experienced in the dazzling bright white light chamber one enters after passing through a dark hallway between the two spaces completes the sense-shattering totality.

The work resides in the collection of ICC (Inter Communication Center) in Tokyo, and has never been shown outside Japan.

Commissioned by ICC, Tokyo, 2002

Photos: Courtesy of the artist

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