Vibrations for Androids

Vibrations for Androids is an infrasonic installation. It explores frequencies beyond the human auditory threshold and induces them through embodied vibration.

Initially, 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, the inaudible sound composition reveals itself, traversing the body in waves of felt vibration.

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, touching 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—a signal not for the ear but for the spine.

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

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