Micro-Sono-Spheres: an Installation for Resonating Glass Sculptures (2025)
by Heather Frasch & Rebecca Lane, in collaboration with Veronika Beckh
Funded by NTNU Artistic Research Program, and Initial Research funded by Musikfonds e.V.
Film by Greg Oke
Images and Video by Greg Oke
About: a multichannel installation that explores the intimate and interdependent spaces of bubbles, utilizing Veronika Beckh’s glass sculptures as physical sonic filters and resonating chambers, informed by Sloterdijk’s Sphere’s triology (Bubbles, Spheres, Foam).
Interacting through an algorithmic system with set parameters, the sonic materials is filtered and amplified through the glass sculptures and conceptually informed by the glass blowing process — Beckh’s breath created the forms and Lane’s flute breath and tones fill their shapes; the interior of one sculpture’s dimensions sound inside the others through the feedback process; colliding rational and irrational tuning systems derived from shared and individual resonating frequencies between the shapes of the five sculptures are sounded by the flute/ sounds as soft lines and round shapes that refelct the sculptures forms and materiality, some sounds reaching an intensity as though they could cause the glass to shatter….
concept and composition: Heather Frasch & Rebecca Lane
glass sculptures: Veronika Beckh
technical realisation (sound): Heather Frasch
Production Assistance: Greg Oke
Presented at Kunsthaus Kule, Open Studios, 9 October 2025