Micro-Sono-Spheres: an Installation for Resonating Glass Sculptures (2025)
by Heather Frasch & Rebecca Lane, in collaboration with Veronika Beckh
About: Micro-Sono-Spheres is a multichannel installation that explores the intimate and interdependent spaces of bubbles. Five hand-blown glass sculptures function as resonating chambers and physical sonic filters: the breath that formed the glass is answered by flute breath and tone, while algorithmic feedback circulates the resonances of one sculpture through the others.
Film by Greg Oke
Concept and Composition: Heather Frasch & Rebecca Lane
Glass Sculptures: Veronika Beckh
Technical Realisation (sound): Heather Frasch
Micro-Sono-Spheres is a multichannel installation that explores the intimate and interdependent spaces of bubbles. Informed by Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy (Bubbles, Globes, Foams), the work uses Veronika Beckh’s glass sculptures as physical sonic filters and resonating chambers.
Within an algorithmic system of set parameters, sonic materials are filtered and amplified through the glass sculptures. The work is also conceptually shaped by glassblowing: Beckh’s breath created the forms, while Lane’s flute breath and tones fill their shapes. Through feedback, the resonant dimensions of one sculpture sound within the others. Rational and irrational tuning systems, derived from the shared and individual resonant frequencies of the five sculptures, collide. The flute articulates them through soft lines and rounded shapes that reflect the sculptures’ forms and materiality, at times reaching an intensity that suggests the glass itself might shatter.
Production Assistance: Greg Oke
Presented at Kunsthaus Kule, Open Studios, Berlin, Germany 9 October 2025. Images and Video by Greg Oke
Funded by NTNU Artistic Research Program, and Initial Research funded by Musikfonds e.V.