Audiograft Festival, Oxford Story Museum, UK (2015)
Leviathan’s Electrolarynx is an interactive sculptural installation that imagines a whale’s voice box as a tactile instrument. When gently touched, the sculpture generates sound and light, producing a unique whale song that resonates through the physical structure of the work and the surrounding architecture, turning the space itself into a resonant body.
The work was developed in collaboration with scenographer Joe Fairweather-Hole and composer Charlie Henry, with technical support from Kumpul Clodahus and Kalle Jokinen. It was installed for two weeks inside an old post office vault at the Oxford Story Museum as part of the Audiograft Festival.
The installation introduced the narrative of a lightly slumbering Leviathan, a conceit that became the foundation for later stages of the project. This initial work established sound as a spatial, embodied experience and positioned architecture as an extension of the creature’s body.
