This work was inspired by a conversation with a violinist who plays music for cancer patients.
She told me that her violin was a product of a miracle: it was created by the world’s
first luthier with impaired hearing, who was now listening to his music as a
member of the audience. Stunned, I learned more about this amazing
luthier through his YouTube channel (violinbeethoven). I found that instead of listening
with his ears, the luthier feels soundwaves by observing the patterns on
sand made by the vibrations of the violin.
I sought to express such awe-inspiring excellence in this work.
Instead of working with real sand, I created digital effects that resemble
its movement as it responds to haptic stimuli. When the camera built into the
violin recognizes movement, the movement is reinterpreted in images
of moving particles and patterns which are then projected onto the screen.
I purposefully excluded sound because, to the luthier, the sounds of
the violin are not about auditory stimuli.