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Imagine being a listener at the heart of a dynamic dawn chorus of bird song; the creaks and groans of a haunted house; or a Noise Orchestra curated sound palette of electromagnetic recordings, bat detectors and noise experiments on an MS-20.

What if these sonic experiences were created not through the conventional medium of surround sound — but rather through a matrix of 25 remote-controlled, mini-speakers arranged in a regular grid – like pixels on a screen.

Like pixels on a screen, this system allows us to ‘draw’, ‘paint’ and ‘animate’ with sound – to create sonic equivalents of brightness, colour and texture. Not via a carefully pre-arranged multi-channel audio composition, but through an intuitive, custom-coded iPad interface that allows for real-time, wireless triggering of each speaker – each ‘sonic pixel’ within the grid.