_DESMOTERION

_BERLIN, GERMANY

_june, 2025

_5th order ambisonics (36 channels), 4min

This project is a 3D audio drama made for Europe's Ninth Student 3D Audio Production Competition. It explores humanity’s confrontation with its own creations—an "artificial god"—and questions the limits of understanding when faced with technologies that mirror and surpass human thought. Drawing inspiration from biblical myths, scientific research, philosophy, art, and mythology, the piece blurs dualities and provokes dialogue between humans and the unknown.

The work responds to the acceleration of knowledge and technology, reflecting a world where progress often leads to disorientation rather than clarity. It asks whether humanity can create an intelligence more thoughtful than its own, despite all systems of logic and language being bound to human limitations. In attempting to design potential successors rather than mere tools, we face a profound existential and epistemological paradox: can the created truly surpass the creator?

The "god" in this performance is not divine but a symbolic mirror of human projections, cultural memory, and existential anxiety. Through spatialized sound, fragmented dialogue, and philosophical language, the piece transforms sound into a medium of inquiry, folding time and space while challenging notions of causality and coherence. It is not simply a narrative but an immersive exploration of paradox and perception.