The audience speaks into the bells of two horns. Sound is inhaled into an alchemical apparatus. The collected voices become chaotically entangled within the tensile confines of an expanding latex balloon. Trapped inside the captured ether, words collide, fragment, and recombine, modulating their contextual and phonetic arrangement. A soundscape of ricocheting voices is perceived, emerging from deep inside the balloon. Over time, the pressure becomes too great and like a sonic capacitor, sound is freed from its reservoir. 

The valves open. Airborne voices are forced through a series of reflective steel cornets towards an elastic membrane where mechanically induced friction compels the collected voices to incandesce. Behind the pulsating membrane, an iris opens, slowly releasing the luminous voices towards a series of glass lenses and mirrors. From here follows a five-part choral harmony of mirrors that builds into a final cacophonous performance of sound, rhythm, and light. 

Creative direction, concept and design, composition, sound design, interaction design, programming, electronics, acoustics: Peter van Haaften Creative direction, concept and design, visual design / realization, interaction design, optomechanical design, fabrication: Michael Montanaro
Concept execution, lead designer, engineering, sculptural realization, acoustics, mechatronics, testing, tooling and fabrication: Garnet Willis Special Thanks: Martin Marier, Nima Navab, Thierry Dumont, Tatev Yesayan, Carolie Delisle, Dirk Zylstra, Guillaume Fortin, Eureka Lighting, Nichia Corporation. 

With support from:  Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts de Montréal, Fonds de recherche du Québec, Concordia University (Montréal), and MOULIN DE L'IMPRÉVU.