Magnetic Reverberance 

2024

sound Installation, cello, sound synthesis

Duration: 20’

6 audio channels include 4 transducers and 2 speakers, 4 installed sound installations and objects (composition for cello, e-bow and magnets on cello, electronic sounds); duration 20′, divided into two parts each at 10 mins. 

Magnetic Reverberance(2024) is a sound performance for installations, cello, and live electronics. Conceived around and in reaction to magnetic fields, taking inspiration from geomagnetic reversal – a change in a planet’s magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged. Who can define solids and voids when the world serves as a mirror? Throughout the performance, it creates a space, where an ebow triggers all sounds and projects them to different installations with transducers and magnets, the vibration from transducer to the iron and magnet will affect different overtones. All objects are in the opposite position of each other like everything has been trapped even the reverberance, two parts of the cello interact each other. The audience can choose to engage with the performance directly in front of the set, alter the magnet, and feel the subtle changes.