Qianhui Sun

Mist is an interactive installation based on light sensing, synthesized sound, and generative logic. Five red laser beams shine vertically from above, forming a perceptual “halo” of light. When a viewer’s body interrupts a beam, a sound is triggered—making the viewer’s movement a variable in the process of music generation. This dynamic soundscape is created through a collaboration between the audience’s actions, computer programming, and the artist’s preset logic.

The sound is synthesized in real-time using Pure Data, incorporating elements such as bass, pad, string, snare, and pluck. These components are triggered and layered through audience interaction, forming a semi-open musical system. It is neither a traditional musical performance nor purely sound design, but a sonic event co-created by humans, machines, and chance. The “mist” serves as a metaphor for the tension between information and perception. The structure is variable, the feedback unpredictable, and each sound represents a moment of being sensed and interpreted. Mist uses sound as a medium to reflect on our role in technological environments—both as operators and as material; both creators of change and subjects being perceived by the system.

Survival is a sound-sculpture installation that immerses the audience in a perceptual field of invisible pressure slowly approaching explosion. The work consists of six wire cages, each containing a suspended black balloon and a speaker, forming a suppressed yet volatile state on the verge of bursting.

In the exhibition, the balloons are inflated to different sizes, resembling a breath frozen at the edge of rupture. The speakers inside the cages continuously play filtered urban noise—fragments of traffic, electricity, and crowds—that remain muffled and blurred beneath the rubber surface, yet persistently present. The entire installation remains static during display, with the inflation process documented and shown through video.This is a simulation of “invisible oppression”: the explosion has already occurred, but the sound continues to echo. The installation invites the audience to experience a space charged with residual tension, reflecting on the condition of contemporary individuals who live within frozen moments of suppressed crisis.