Geofónie

Geofónie is the result of the Trychtýř 2024 open call, the goal of which was to create a site-specific collective sound installation for Brno’s former limestone quarry Hády, now a nature reserve and a popular recreation area on the city.

Artyčok TV’s report:

The open call brought together artists of diverse backgrounds and resulted in a multi-layered spatial sound installation exploring the location’s geology. The constellation of objects, forming an IoT network, generates a varying soundscape by the means of sonification (scanning the surface of various limestones), or live processing the sound of limestones dissolving in acid.

I was focusing mainly on the technical realization - software and hardware architecture and the implementation on the embedded platforms ESP32 (sensors, stepper motor, OSC communication via Wi-Fi) and Daisy Seed (audio programming using gen~ / Oopsy).

Installation credits:
  • Jiří Y. Suchánek – project coordination, mechatronics, kinetic objects, code, sound
  • Filip Dobrocký (SK) – code, electronics, Wi-Fi communication, sound
  • Michal Marenčík (SK) – dissolution of limestones, objects, code, sound
  • Lucie Vobr Jestřabíková (CZ) – ceramics, porcelain
  • Eliška Janečková (CZ) – 3D prints, objects, speculative design
  • Mgr. Tomáš Kumpan, Ph.D. – professional consultant, geology
The installation (or parts of it) has since been exhibited in varying forms at several occasions:
  • SONDA festival, Hády quarry, Brno, CZ, 11/2024
  • Brno Art Week, co.labs, Brno, CZ, 3/2025
  • Re:Senster lab, 3SI Art festival, Krakow, PL, 4/2025
  • Světlo Valmez, Valašské Meziříčí, CZ, 9/2025
  • Esc Medien Kunst Labor, Graz, AT 9-11/2025
  • Dim Zvuku (House of Sound), Lviv, Ukraine, 12/2025

More about the project here.

Photos: Karolina Raimund