The Liquid Form sound Lab

Liquid Form Sound Laboratory is an immersive sound and visual performance created by Can Touch This Studio and Franco-Japanese artist and designer Emilie Yoko Hirayama. Water is the central material of the work. Drops falling into it trigger notes through a hydrophone microphone, while conductive brushes translate movement into music. Hirayama also works with suminagashi, a Japanese marbling technique in which ink floats across the surface of water, allowing the composition created during the performance to be transferred onto fabric.

The project brings sound and image together through the same material. Water is used as a visual backdrop; it helps produce the music while carrying the patterns that become part of the final image.

Presented at Ithra Museum as part of Tanween Design Week, Liquid Form Sound Laboratory sits between live performance, visual art and material experimentation.

For Listen Closer, they contributed a selection of videos from their practice, offering a closer look at how the work is made.

A drop of water becomes the beginning of a composition. Enter the interactive lab to explore a table of glass vessels connected to a recorder and amplifier. Add droplets, listen to each vessel’s voice, change the water levels, and build a liquid rhythm of your own.