_ALRIGHT

_BERLIN, GERMANY 

_july, 2025

_octo-speaker interactive sound installation

Alright is an installation that explores the architecture of consciousness, where voice, emotion, and spatial sound merge into a responsive environment. Structured as a tripartite journey through the pre-conscious, self-aware, and meta-conscious, the work uses speech and language as bridges between inner experience and outer sonic space.

Drawing on psychology, affective computing, and neuroscience, as well as philosophical models from Plato’s tripartite soul to Freud’s layers of the psyche, the piece questions whether the self can ever be fully understood. The soundscape shifts in response to the emotional tone and sentiment of the participant’s voice, creating an evolving mirror of inner turbulence, clarity, or serenity.

The installation blurs the boundaries between subject and object, listener and environment. As technology grows capable of interpreting human affect, Trilogue asks: What happens when our emotions are reflected back to us as atmosphere and architecture? It is less a narrative than a transformative, participatory consciousness — a space that listens as you listen to it.

The installation utilizes Valence-Arousal-Dominance (VAD) emotion detection and text-based emotion recognition to dynamically shape the auditory environment. The soundscape responds both to the tonal and emotional qualities of the participant’s speech and to their spatial position within the room. 

Through physical rotation, participants can reveal and interact with three distinct layers of consciousness, symbolizing the notion that self-understanding—and by extension, the comprehension of complex problems—can only emerge from specific perspectives.

The participant is prompted to speak when a red dot appears on the screens, while the emergence of three dots indicates a state of receptive interaction, during which the participant is invited to engage in active listening to the surrounding sound environment.