Transsonic (Viola Yip and Nicola L. Hein) is an experimental transmedia duo that creates immersive site-specific performances and installations bridging the vibrations of light and sound. Trained as musicians, both look into the ontology of sound and how musical experience can be transformed beyond its common material—sound. They explore light as an expanded musical material. They research and create performances, improvising between lights and sounds as equally important but dialectical musical materials.
In “Fluid Ontologies”, Transsonic continues to expand their intermedial artistic practice in performances.

This project focuses on the use of laser feedback instruments, using lasers as sound sources and solar panel microphones, combining them with light bulb instruments, fog machines and synthesizers, as well as machine learning based latent timbre spaces. With the incorporation of 4-channel spatialization, Transsonic extends the dimensions in their artistic work and develop a new kind of electronic instrument by using solar panel microphones and laser sound sources, creating a unique audiovisual experience. In particular, the aim is to explore and define new concepts of the instrumentality of light as the starting point and origin of sound, integrating the entire body.

The artwork is commissioned by A4. The video is produced by A4 as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union and supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council and Bratislava City Foundation.

Video: Daniel Kazankov & Michal Vasiľ & Debora Pastirčáková
Authors concept: Anete Bužoka