Space sound generator
Nelli Kamaeva Slepushkina Elena
Poster
A science-fiction premise: in a world that forgot instruments, a machine composes music atom by atom to cure a vague collective melancholy.
A small science-fiction premise: humanity has digitised everything and, somewhere along the way, forgotten what instruments were — the touch of them, the magic of making a new sound. People fall ill with a vague melancholy, so scientists and artists build a generator that composes music at the "atomic" level and releases it into the real world. Each atom has its own mood, colour and sound; the vibration moves the surrounding air until everyone hears their own private tune.
The poster is the machine's own technical sheet. Oval, organ-like forms in dusty rose and grey are wrapped in dense typography set in Khmer script, tables and diagrams describing these musical atoms, with a single large eye watching from the central capsule and a row of small expressive faces along the bottom standing in for the people it's meant to cure.
Part instrument manual, part fairy tale — a quiet argument that even a fully encoded world still aches for something it can feel.
A small science-fiction premise: humanity has digitised everything and, somewhere along the way, forgotten what instruments were — the touch of them, the magic of making a new sound. People fall ill with a vague melancholy, so scientists and artists build a generator that composes music at the "atomic" level and releases it into the real world. Each atom has its own mood, colour and sound; the vibration moves the surrounding air until everyone hears their own private tune.
The poster is the machine's own technical sheet. Oval, organ-like forms in dusty rose and grey are wrapped in dense typography set in Khmer script, tables and diagrams describing these musical atoms, with a single large eye watching from the central capsule and a row of small expressive faces along the bottom standing in for the people it's meant to cure.
Part instrument manual, part fairy tale — a quiet argument that even a fully encoded world still aches for something it can feel.
Space sound generator
Nelli Kamaeva
