"Green noise", 2024

«Green noise» «Green noise» is a noise, simulating spectrum of natural settings, without human-made noises. The «Green noise» project is a kinetic installation which explores soundscapes of the city. Tablets react on the sounds recordered in some places of the city: there is a sound of a tram, street musician’s tune, traffic noise, birdsongs, splash of water in the puddles etc. The installation visualizes urban noise which became «green» for the city residents. You can here a soundscapes of the city in headphones and connect it with the movement in the installation. Some places you can see on the map, are shown as kinetic landscapes, which rotate before your eyes and inside your ears. Installation consists of the tablets, with moves and all that movement imitate basilar membrane principle – a structure, where special sensory cells are situated. These cells, like tablets, can catch different frequency sound waves. Frequency ranges presented like rotary tablets of the color of young leaves, which looks like a waving mechanical forest.

The project is supported by the Norpeksal Foundation. Gratitude: laboratory of physiology of hearing Institute of physiology I.P. Pavlov RAS, Saint-Petersburg (Ph.D. in Biology E.A. Petropavlovskaya, Ph.D. in Biology M.U. Agaeva, D.Sc. in Biology L.B. Stepalova), T.S. Degtyarev (Center for Creative Industries SBSUITD) City sounds partly provided by PermSound project and Alice Fiddler

photos by Aleksei Beloborodov, Maria Kuptsova and Anna Martynenko