Becoming is a kinetic sound sculpture that invites the viewer into an encounter with transformation — a liminal space where energy tips into matter, breath into form, silence into sound.
At its heart rests a Tibetan singing bowl. Suspended within it by a slender steel thread is an emu egg, turning slowly when a human presence is detected nearby. As the egg revolves and grazes the bowl’s inner rim, a resonant tone emerges. An audio-reactive spotlight binds sound to light, so that each vibration becomes both audible and luminous, unfolding in tandem.
The bowl is tuned to D♯ — a frequency long associated with birth, transition, and renewal. Its voice opens a threshold: not a note alone but a portal between what has yet to be and what has arrived. Becoming makes audible the fragile instant of birth — a meditation on emergence, transmutation, and the mystery of becoming.
The sculpture rests on a pedestal within an enclosed chamber, where light and sound converge to draw the viewer wholly into this threshold experience.
Materials: Tibetan singing bowl (D#), emu egg, Stainless steel cable, DC motor, Custom electronics and software.
Becoming 1.0
In this earlier form of Becoming, the Earth itself is the moving body. A fragment of Icelandic volcanic rock hangs within a Tibetan singing bowl, suspended by a thread of steel and turned slowly by a hidden motor above. When a viewer draws near, the stone begins to revolve, brushing the bowl’s inner rim in passing. Each touch releases a tone — resonant, patient, elemental.
The bowl sings in D♯, a frequency bound to thresholds of transition and renewal. Its sound is less note than passageway: a quiet aperture between the unseen and the manifest, between what has not yet taken form and what insists on being. Becoming gives voice to the fragile instant of change — a vibration caught in the act of becoming matter, becoming sound, becoming itself.
At the heart of an enclosed chamber, the work gathers light and resonance into a focused field. Within this space, perception sharpens, and the simple orbit of stone and bowl becomes a meditation on emergence, on transmutation, on the mystery of arrival.
Materials: Tibetan singing bowl (D#), Volcanic rock (Icelandic), Stainless steel cable, DC motor, Custom electronics and software.