Oceanosmos


︎Oct, 2023 - Ongoing


Oceanosmos is an immersive audio-visual installation inspired by the "oceanic feeling,” as described by writer Romain Rolland. It aims to convey a sense of the infinite and eternal, where the self dissolves, merging with the external world. Freud interpreted this "oceanic feeling" as a primitive self-awareness retained from infancy. Oceanosmos creates an immersive space using spatial sound, laser planes, projections, smoke, and water interaction to explore this "oceanic feeling" – a spiritual experience where the self and the world become one.

Oceanosmos employs an Ambisonic multi-channel spatial sound array, weaving sounds from the ocean and within the human body to create a generative immersive sonic landscape. The work processes sound samples recorded from underwater microphones and portable recorders using chaotic algorithms, resulting in a generative soundscape that hovers between the concrete and the abstract. Through the cues provided by generative sound, Oceanosmos aims to construct a world that exists between the deep sea and the womb, enveloping the audience completely. It encourages the audience to explore the blurred boundary between the external and the self.

The visual installation takes shape in multiple womb-like glass sculptures, constantly modulating the laser projection. Programmed mechanisms create ripples on the water's surface, using refracted lasers to produce different visual patterns. Sound coordinates with programmed projections and lasers to deliver an experimental cross-media narrative. Through immersive nonlinear storytelling, the work guides the audience to explore the relationship between the internal and external, dissolving the boundaries of the self and establishing continuity with the surrounding space.



Oceanosmos 的灵感来自作家罗曼·罗兰的关于“海洋感觉”(oceanic feeling)的描述。它旨向一种无限与永恒,是一种主体消融,与外部世界融为一体的感受。 费洛伊将这种“海洋感觉”的解读为一种从胎儿时期保留的原始的自我意识。 Oceanosmo通过空间声音、激光平面、投影、烟雾与水的互动来创造一个沉浸式空间来探索这种“海洋感觉”: 一种自我与世界相化而为一的灵性体验。

Oceanosmos 使用Ambisonic多声道空间声音阵列,用海洋与人体内的声音编织出一个生成式的沉浸式声景。作品使用混沌算法驱动的粒子合成器处理水下麦克风和便携式录音机录制的声音采样,得到一种介于具象和抽象之间的生成式声音景观。

通过生成式声音所提供的线索,Oceanosmos 旨在创造出介于一个深海与子宫之间的世界框架,将观众完全包裹。让观众探索外部与自我之间的关系,感受意识在边缘的徘徊。 同时,多声道空间声音为水面提供震动,对从中穿过投影与激光进行折射,以产生不同的图形模式。同时,声音会配合编程的投影,激光进行实验性的跨媒介叙事。

作品通过沉浸式的非线性多重叙事,引导观众探索内部与外部的关系,将自我的边界消解,与所在空间形成一种连续体。



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Produced by: Ke Peng, Chang Meng, Zhao Jiajing, Zidi Gong

Performed at
Mirror Mirror, IKLECTIK, Nov 21 2023
St John’s on Bethnal Green, Dec 11 2023








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