SUSPENSION

SUSPENSION is a site-specific installation created in response to the architecture of the space. Nine piano wires hang from the ceiling, held taut by lead weights. The central weight corresponds to the mass of the artist’s body; the others are tuned around it.

What music exists between space and listener? This work explores this in-between. The title refers both to the physical condition of the installation and to the musical concept, holding a note from one chord into the next to create a moment of dissonance that suggests resolution. Here, however, the tension remains unresolved as tones emerge, interact, and slowly transform over time.

Each string is sustained through electromagnetic feedback. A pickup listens, a microcontroller creates the constraints, and a driver provides the energy to keep string sounding. There is no score or sequence — the strings find their own resonant frequencies, drifting as conditions in the room shift.

The central string sounds at approximately 50 Hz, slightly above G1. The surrounding strings are tuned so that their overtones periodically align with those of the central string, moments of clear consonance that emerge and dissolve within a diffuse harmonic field.