Reticule (cliché) (2025)
Sound installation (12 channels) with wood block, metal teeth, small glasses and piezos
Completed after the piece Reticule (suspend), this installation is actually the first one that started in the series of reticules. The term “reticule,” linked to “retina,” originates from the Latin rete, meaning a fine network, and refers to grids like cross-hairs in telescopic sights. In this work, small glass slides paired with piezo elements create subtle, insect-like sounds. These sounds are faint and require a quiet environment and attentive audience.
The reticules, adaptable and open-ended, became a “field kit” during the simularr research project, consisting of glass slides and piezos in portable aluminum cases. A third case held a custom-built “node” with a miniature computer, audio amplifiers, and interfaces. These reticules were arranged around the Hoke Werkhaus garden, interacting with water, leaves, bricks, and sounds from other artists like water and voices. In this piece then, I returned to the first object given to me that inspired the name, a wooden cliché (printing block) with a curious geometric pattern of metal teeth that would hold the small glass slides.
Outside is their natural habitat, but indoors the reticules require different setups. At the exhibtion in Domenig Steinhaus, nodes placed on a table with interlaced glass create dynamic electroacoustic pieces, responding to each other and the environment by way of microphones. This composition invites close listening, forming a nuanced sound space as one moves their ears near the setup.
Reticule (cliché) (recording excerpt)