KRONOTOPIA

Kronotopia is an electroacoustic performance and sound installation that expands the listening space beyond the physical architecture of the venue. It transforms the audience’s smartphones into an active part of the loudspeaker array, creating a hybrid ecosystem where public and private listening merge into a single, fluid environment.

The piece unfolds within an 8-channel surround system while a parallel audio stream reaches the smartphones of the audience in up to 32 independent zones. This dual-layer design creates a constantly shifting landscape of delays, overlaps, resonances and temporal dislocations. The smartphone audio, delivered with an intentional 5-second delay, acts as a memory trace: an echo of what has already happened or a premonition of what is about to emerge. In this oscillation between present and elsewhere, Kronotopia explores how sound reshapes our perception of time.

The composition is built around four families of sonic objects—bells, breaths, clockwork mechanisms and drops of water—which recur throughout the piece as markers of temporal states. Their trajectories interweave across the room, dissolve into the smartphone layer, and reappear in transformed forms, creating a musical structure that is both spatial and narrative. The listener moves through overlapping planes of intimacy and distance, synchrony and drift, order and erosion.

As a live performer, I manipulate both layers in real time, blending composed materials, generative processes and spatial improvisation. The audience is not merely surrounded by sound—they inhabit multiple temporalities at once, participating in a collective yet deeply personal listening experience.