Kyma
Kyma (from the Greek κΰμα, “wave”) is an art installation joining science, music and poetry. It is a reflection on life as a cycle starting from water and sound. The project binds together visual and sound, musical dimension, it combines science and literature, technology and mythology, rationality and sacral rituality, ancient and future times in a multi-level work of art open to several readings and multiple interpretations.
Kyma is based on a complex sound design: eight separated and synchronized digital audio channels reproducing not only vibrations, but also original music and texts and the sounds of the universe and the black holes, which have been elaborated by some American Professors. There are eight sound tracks with different length looping and crossing at always different points. Sound interacts with water creating wavelets and “translating” into geometrical drawings the original vibrant strength of the waves.
From an aesthetical point of view, the installation is based on a geometrical synthesis and on an essential chromatic duality. Kyma consists of five little pools containing a thin water layer. Stimulated through sound, the water intermittent vibrates. Each pool bears a writing, the name of one of human life phases. There is a poem on each phase of human life associating it with a phase of water cycle and hanging on the wall. This symbolic way through life ends with a big pool with the title “Kyma - life waves”. The sounds coming directly from every pool mingle with the ones reproduced by a sound system placed in the room. The sound waves involve the audience in an intensely emotional experience.
Kyma is based on a complex sound design: eight separated and synchronized digital audio channels reproducing not only vibrations, but also original music and texts and the sounds of the universe and the black holes, which have been elaborated by some American Professors. There are eight sound tracks with different length looping and crossing at always different points. Sound interacts with water creating wavelets and “translating” into geometrical drawings the original vibrant strength of the waves.
From an aesthetical point of view, the installation is based on a geometrical synthesis and on an essential chromatic duality. Kyma consists of five little pools containing a thin water layer. Stimulated through sound, the water intermittent vibrates. Each pool bears a writing, the name of one of human life phases. There is a poem on each phase of human life associating it with a phase of water cycle and hanging on the wall. This symbolic way through life ends with a big pool with the title “Kyma - life waves”. The sounds coming directly from every pool mingle with the ones reproduced by a sound system placed in the room. The sound waves involve the audience in an intensely emotional experience.
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