Vibrations for Androids

Vibrations for Androids is an infrasonic installation that explores frequencies beyond the human auditory threshold by inducing embodied vibrations.

Visitors encounter what appears to be an artificial piece of grass floating silently in the room. Upon closer approach, barely visible motions hint at hidden forces within. The platform's raised surface invites visitors to lie down and rest their heads against it. Once in contact with this artificial earth, inaudible sound compositions reveal themselves, traversing the body in waves of felt vibration.

Once on the installation, beneath the body, a slow pulse of the world emerges. What cannot be heard moves through deep vibrations—sound without sound. Two people lie head to head; their bodies listen; they touch the slow tremors of the planet: massive tectonic drifts, whale calls crossing oceans, slow volcanic activity, and the deep pulses of a militarized earth bearing nuclear tests and oil drilling. There is no image, no score, no direction—only the pressure of presence—signals not for the ear but for the spine.

Vibrations for Androids acknowledges both the body and the world around us as part of inaudible orchestras, exploring the hidden languages that traverse vibrating matter. Operating below audible frequencies, this network of vibrations affects everything subconsciously, for touch is always reciprocal. Touch flows both ways—one simultaneously touches and is touched.

This installation emerged from research into infrasonic soundscapes and examines different scales of vibrational orchestras: from the planetary scale of vibrating matter in interconnected systems to the microscale of interior listening.