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“Field Atmosphonia” is a sound and light environment featuring 3,000 audio channels playing on custom-made speakers with LED lights. The project is a soundscape that comes in waves of complex polyphonies that emerge from the array of field recordings. The piece is presented in a large room, with the recordings changing typology gradually along the field of speakers: samples include wind, water, fire, ice, over 200 species of insects, over 300 types of birds, bells, metronomes, bombs and so on. Visitors are tracked by the control computer, and as they walk under the speakers, they play back and light up, allowing the participant to “tune into” specific sounds.

This installation is part of the series of pieces investigating the perception of thousands of simultaneous sounds each playing in a different dedicated loudspeaker, what Lozano-Hemmer calls “speaker as pixel”. A pixel is a point of light varying in intensity and spectral frequency: coordinated with its neighbours the perception of pixels gives rise to images. The question is if we have thousands of sound sources in an array, can we see the emergence of a new perceptible complexity beyond the expected cacophony? (short answer: yes)