Resonora
In collaboration with OStudio Indonesia
© Dearista Nooria Kusuma, OStudio
Exhibition
BDG Light 2025
Joyland Festival

This installation translates the city’s sound frequencies into light, projecting them onto a suspended line of fabric. The fabrics become living surfaces where sound becomes visible, where the aural spectrum of urban life is re-imagined as shifting illumination. The choice of material is intentional: delicate yet resilient, capable of capturing movement, shadow, and vibration, much like a social fabric that absorbs the frictions, rhythms, and harmonies of daily life.
By revealing what often exists at the edges of perception, spatial, sensory, or social, the installation invites visitors to experience the city through its textures of frequency rather than its formal images. It asks the audience to attune themselves to layers of resonance usually unnoticed, to witness how sound shapes movement, and to consider what these hidden vibrations say about how we inhabit and interact with our environment.
Through a series of listening journals, we observed how different urban and interior sounds generate distinct textures, traffic and conversation form sharp, irregular pulses, nature sounds create finer continuous patterns, and interior organ music produces deeper, more rhythmic waves. By translating these contrasting sonic signatures into visual form, we became interested in how sound can be seen as much as heard, inspiring an experience where audiences encounter sound through its textures, movements, and shifting visual rhythms.




