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Hydroscope, 2025
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Hydroscope, 2025

Sub-bass vibrations sculpt pressurised water into kinetic light

Based in Caen, France

Sound artExperimental electronicA/V

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Six metal modules combine hydraulics, transducers, light and analogue electronics, with low-frequency oscillations acting on five horizontal water jets. Much of the vibration sits below hearing range: the main event is sound made visible as streams buckle, pulse and catch the light.

More about Hydroscope, 2025

Alexis Choplain graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Mons before moving through Creuse to Caen. His practice treats electricity as material, exposing electronics and physical mechanisms rather than disguising them behind screens.

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Ryoji Ikeda, Zimoun, Semiconductor

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