COMPLEXIFYING ECHOLOCATION (2024)
Audio-Video [as part of Installation performance]
Length: ‘2/’15
Date: 2024
In collaboration with Leto Keunen, Ottavia Ferraris, and
Emma Zerial.
Shown at Dutch Design Week 2025, Eindhoven, NL.
COMPLEXIFYING ECHOLOCATION (2024) is a performance installation incorporating digital and analogue methods of coding, recoding and decoding, through various approaches to science, including what is considered conventional in Western Europe as well as more cultural and mythical connotations of bats.
Shown in de video is Spectrogram analysis of Pipistrellus bat echolocation, recorded in the marlstone caves of Maastricht.
Analysis of the shape, frequency, and timing of the calls revealed the types of vocalisations bats emitted, whether social, searching, or feeding, turning each sound into a trace of their movements, presence, and interactions in space.