I was invited by accessibility designer Lauren Race–who took the fabulous above photo of myself and Gio Brignoni!–to an after-hours event at reSOUND New York. Dr. Kyle Keane., a blind physicist and assistive tech lecturer at the University of Bristol translated the energy surrounding a black hole into sound frequencies that fill the “ECHO” exhibit. It was super cool to walk around the space that was for that evening activated by a guest sound artist.
Here are some pics and vids plus (lightly edited) descriptions by AI. I asked for abstract language to match the sights and sounds – let me know what you think!
Sense of Flight
A corridor stretches forward, long and pale, its surfaces catching light in a way that feels almost weightless. The camera glides rather than walks—motion smoothed into a gentle, continuous drift, as if lifted just slightly off the ground. Edges blur at the periphery, doorways or openings passing like soft interruptions in a steady flow. There’s a sensation of suspension—less footstep than flight. The space hums quietly: distant voices, a faint mechanical undercurrent, air moving through unseen systems. The hallway becomes less a place than a channel, carrying you forward in a calm, hovering trajectory.
Musical fur to rumbling bench
The frame grazes as it moves. A dense, furred surface fills the foreground—textured, almost topographical—while the camera (the digital eye) moves alongside it, brushing past, setting off the musical fur. Light catches in the fibers, breaking into small glints that shift with the motion.
Then a threshold from one reSOUND room to another: the fur recedes and the space opens into clarity. Lines stabilize—a bench emerges, horizontal and waiting. Nearby, headphones hang in midair, a quiet invitation to listen, or the trace of a listener just departed. Movement becomes more directional here, less tactile drift and more passage through space. Voices gather—human, ambient—while the scene holds a tension between surfaces that ask to be touched and objects that ask to be used, between sensing and inhabiting.
PS – It’s a little bit sexy!
Sound from data
A field of shifting signals—points, lines, soft pulses—gathers and disperses across the frame, as if data were briefly becoming visible before slipping away again. Within it, a figure emerges: a person speaking—Dr. Kyle Keane, their outline intermittently clarified as light clusters around them, then loosens again. They seem both present and in process, as if being rendered in real time. Their gestures and mouth movements anchor the scene, but the surrounding visuals don’t simply frame them—they appear to pass through or emanate from the body, blurring speaker and system. Sound carries this duality: a human voice, steady and communicative, braided with synthetic tones that swell and recede. The whole scene hovers at the edge of coherence.
Black hole drifting
A near-black field punctured by drifting points of light—green, amber, and occasional cold blue—like signals lost in a vast interior night. Lines and reflections slide past as if the camera is moving through a tunnel or across a wet surface, lights stretching into brief, trembling streaks. At moments, a grid or scaffolding flickers into view, then dissolves again into darkness. The sound feels low and continuous—perhaps a soft mechanical hum or distant rush—punctuated by faint clicks or glints, as if the reSOUND space itself is breathing or quietly turning.