Through Sounds
Commission ‘unbound echo’ by Aimée Theriot
The Ma Yansong: Architecture and Emotion exhibition features an interactive audiovisual installation created especially for the show by artist and composer Aimée Theriot. Conceiving sound as spatial design, Theriot connects it to the Chinese shanshui painting tradition, an important source of inspiration for Ma and his office, MAD Architects. Just as mountains and bodies of water flow into each other in these washed ink sketches, Theriot suggests that sound, space and memory are also interconnected, transcending hard material boundaries.
unbound echo
Aimée Theriot's unbound echo is an evolving sonic installation and accompanying public program that explores the phenomena of echoes, resonance, and reverberation, not just as sonic events, but as reflections on memory and transformation. The work grows through participation, shaped by the audience as much as by the architecture around it and the materials that compose it. Voices overlap and leave impressions, connecting sound, space, and memory. The piece was made in collaboration with Tjobo Kho, Clara Rojas, and Stijn van Beek.
A collective composition
This commission includes a public programme, beginning with a workshop on 5 July from 2-5 pm. The session will explore repetition, reverberation, and spatial interaction through embodied listening exercises and improvisational sound-making. Participants will collectively shape a composition that evolves throughout the workshop, prompted by MAD's archive.
About Through Sounds
Through Sounds is a long-term research project by Nieuwe Instituut that looks at this ‘sonic culture’ as a field for spatial and social design. Where people listen is connected to different structures – physical, social, political and socio-economic. We call them ‘listening infrastructures’. Looking at them helps us to understand where and how we access sound, and how we meet and form communities through it.
About Aimée Theriot
Aimée Theriot is an artist with a fluid practice that takes shape through text, music, curatorial projects, installation, and research. At the heart of her work is a deep fascination with sound and vibration, approaching listening as both a method and a destination for understanding the world. Trained as a composer and musician with a focus on experimental practices, her music is grounded in free improvisation and draws from ambient, electroacoustic, and deep listening traditions. She currently lives and works in Amsterdam.