Becoming an Ocean is an experimental sound installation using the qualities of acoustics to create a soundscape that only exists due to movement. The installation uses solely static pink noise and rotation of the speakers, aiming to create a sonic landscape of waves crashing on the seashore.

The movement patterns of the speakers are the source of the emerging soundscape. By utilising the sonic artefacts that arise from hearing directional speakers in motion – filtering and phasing effects -, the soft pink noise is modulated and transformed into waves crashing on a seashore. Through modifying the speed and direction of the speakers rotation, the soundscape shifts between calm, gentle waves and turbulent ocean. The pink noise sound source itself stays shapeless and unchanging – without the movement of the speakers, one would merely hear a static hiss.

Becoming an Ocean (8 rotating loudspeakers, amplifier, custom software, pink noise. 10” loop, 2022). Created during the residency at Institute for Computer Music and Sount Technology in Zürich, Switzerland.
Software and hardware – Peter Färber of ICST