Installations · 2025
Fragile Landscape
A sound exhibition about a landscape we can hear disappearing. An eight-channel spatial composition built from field recordings — ecoacoustics, dramaturgy of sound moving through space, and sound visualisation as a visual element.
Concept
Fragile Landscape is a listening situation, not an exhibition with background music. Visitors step inside an eight-channel field where the sounds of a landscape — water, wind, birds, insects and human traces — move around them following a dramaturgical score. The ecoacoustic material comes from field recordings of real places.
Space as an instrument
Eight speakers don't create a "surround effect" — they form an instrument: each channel has its own voice in the score, and sound travels through the space in gestures that guide the visitor's attention. A complementary stereo installation offers an intimate counterpart to the main hall. Amplitude and spectrogram visualisations make the sound visible in exactly the form we work with in the studio.
Why it matters
Multichannel installations are rare in Czech galleries — the know-how to design, build and keep them running through weeks of an exhibition is scarce. Fragile Landscape is a reference project for precisely this craft: from dramaturgy and composition through equipment choice to training gallery staff.
Exhibition photography: Jirka Pernica.
My contribution: Concept and co-authorship, field recording, composition of the 8-channel spatial piece, speaker layout and installation acoustics design, amplitude/spectrogram visualisations, technical realisation and operation.
