The Acoustic Continuum is a hybrid sculpture, sound installation, and lecture performance that has occupied the -1 Digital Lab as a long-term, evolving presence since September 2025 and will remain on view until March 2026. Taking the form of modular furniture that doubles as a speaker system, the work comprises four individual objects that can be separated, rearranged, and used as seats for audiences during performances or as quiet resting spots between events. At rest, these modules operate as sculptural design objects and sites for listening; during two live performances, they become active instruments, projecting sound and supporting the piece's performative and research dimensions.
The installation blurs the boundaries between research and finished work, and between passive object and active sound source, framing noise as a designed phenomenon approached sociologically, phenomenologically, and through sonic and architectural experiment. Drawing on archaeocoustics, contemporary design, and speculative fiction, it treats sonic logic as an intuitive mode of inquiry that moves across historical and imagined timelines, using sound-making and listening to probe urgent questions around urban noise today.
As both furniture and speakers, The Acoustic Continuum invites visitors to sit, listen, and reconsider their relationship to the sonic environments they inhabit, allowing the installation to continuously shift between installation and performance space over the course of its run.