2016 · Multi-channel sound installation · Aichi Triennale, Nagoya
white house is a multi-channel sound installation of 48 speakers arranged in a gradient from black to white. Each speaker plays a recorded voice at low volume through a perforated felt surface, drawing listeners in close.
The voices were gathered across Japan through direct encounters that began with a simple question about color and personal association. Regional dialect speakers, craft practitioners, poets, and musicians shared memories, texts, and lived experiences connected to the color they chose.
Sound, light, and material work together as one distributed field. The speakers sit behind a continuous felt surface, aligned with circular openings that let sound through, while subtle LED responses ripple across the surface. Listening becomes spatial and relational: each voice is met on its own, and color is experienced through sound.
white house
2016
Multi-channel sound installation
Aichi Triennale, Nagoya