Edern Janneau

Composed of three sculptures equipped with LiDAR sensors, Resonant Ziggurats creates a field in which presence becomes audible. The sculptures detect the positions, distances and movement of the visitors surrounding them, translating these spatial relations into sound in real time. What usually remains silent in an exhibition is here essential to the work’s composition.

Each sculpture is built through stratified wooden layers, calculated according to the golden ratio. This proportional logic organises the physical structure of the objects while the sonic system they generate is based on the organic paths of the visitors. When no one approaches, the sculptures remain withdrawn, emitting only a minimal and continuous tone. It is through the trajectory of bodies that the installation fluctuates and reaches a living state. Each movement triggers a unique relation between body, object and space, generating a transitory configuration of sounds.

Resonant Ziggurats also aims to redirect LiDAR, a technology commonly associated with detection and surveillance, towards a sensitive function. In this installation, detection isn't used to control presence, but to poetically reveal it. The visitors are not recorded as data, but their passage is transformed into an ephemeral sound testimony.