Ninefold: A Distributed Resonant Field
Date: 2026.07 – 2026.09
Location: Reeves House Visual Arts Center, Woodstock Arts, Woodstock, Georgia
Collaborators: Jeremy Muller, Misri Patel
Status: Completed
Type: Exhibition
Photos: Arsh Khanna
🔗 Woodstock Arts
🔗 Designboom
A distributed system of nine sound-producing artifacts, where geometry, material, and spatial arrangement modulate a shared harmonic field.
Edgard Varèse described music as “organized sound,” while Iannis Xenakis and Le Corbusier developed spatial systems in which sound, form, and movement could be composed as a single environment. Building on this lineage, Ninefold approaches composition as an act of organization across media, where architecture, music, and fabrication converge into a shared perceptual field.
The installation is organized through nine artifacts distributed throughout the space. Each element emits and transforms sound while maintaining a distinct formal identity. Together they form a dispersed yet coherent system in which local differences contribute to a collective acoustic environment. Sound is encountered not as a single source, but as a continuously shifting condition that unfolds across the room.
The sonic field is structured through nine interdependent harmonic voices that move between sustained tones, rhythmic pulses, and evolving textures. Networked devices synchronize, separate, and recombine, producing a dynamic composition that is never experienced from a single position.
Fabricated from recycled plastic, each artifact acts as an acoustic mediator. Variations in geometry, thickness, translucency, and surface articulation influence how sound propagates and how light is perceived. Material, sound, and form become inseparable components of the same system.
As visitors move through the installation, the field reorganizes through proximity and position. Sound intensifies, overlaps, disperses, and recedes. Listening becomes spatial and embodied, transforming the room into a continuously evolving environment of acoustic, material, and perceptual relationships.![]()
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Collaborators: Jeremy Muller, Misri Patel
Status: Completed
Type: Exhibition
Photos: Arsh Khanna
🔗 Woodstock Arts
🔗 Designboom
A distributed system of nine sound-producing artifacts, where geometry, material, and spatial arrangement modulate a shared harmonic field.
Edgard Varèse described music as “organized sound,” while Iannis Xenakis and Le Corbusier developed spatial systems in which sound, form, and movement could be composed as a single environment. Building on this lineage, Ninefold approaches composition as an act of organization across media, where architecture, music, and fabrication converge into a shared perceptual field.
The installation is organized through nine artifacts distributed throughout the space. Each element emits and transforms sound while maintaining a distinct formal identity. Together they form a dispersed yet coherent system in which local differences contribute to a collective acoustic environment. Sound is encountered not as a single source, but as a continuously shifting condition that unfolds across the room.
The sonic field is structured through nine interdependent harmonic voices that move between sustained tones, rhythmic pulses, and evolving textures. Networked devices synchronize, separate, and recombine, producing a dynamic composition that is never experienced from a single position.
Fabricated from recycled plastic, each artifact acts as an acoustic mediator. Variations in geometry, thickness, translucency, and surface articulation influence how sound propagates and how light is perceived. Material, sound, and form become inseparable components of the same system.
As visitors move through the installation, the field reorganizes through proximity and position. Sound intensifies, overlaps, disperses, and recedes. Listening becomes spatial and embodied, transforming the room into a continuously evolving environment of acoustic, material, and perceptual relationships.
