Monom Sequencer
Sound spatialization program — Berlin
Break down the structure, emphasize the mesh.
MONOM is an experimental sound spatialization studio based in Berlin. It accompanies artists in the handling of the diffusion system made up of a three-dimensional mesh of 48 speakers. The philosophy behind this tool is to make people forget the technical object that the loudspeaker represents - and at the same time the metallic structure - in order to produce fictional soundscapes. In discussion with the team on site, my work took the opposite approach: to show the grid, to underline its nodes.
The spatialization algorithm, developed for the artists, is similar to a spatial sequencer: on the rhythm, the sound jumps from speaker to speaker according to the chosen directions. These directions, three in number, transition by planes (from bottom to top, from left to right, from back to front). The source scans the space. Thus, playing on one speaker at a time allows to recover a certain spatial definition and a sharpness in the sound.
The program allows you to select the speakers that play and those that do not, and shapes can be drawn in the manner of holograms.