_NEUROGRAPHY

_BERLIN, GERMANY

_ongoing, 2025

_7th order ambisonics, 10-15min

Neurography is an ongoing ambisonic composition that explores the intersection between memory, technology, and identity. The work translates digital photographs—fragments of personal experience—into sound spectrograms, transforming visual memories into immersive sonic textures. Layered with foley recordings and spatial movement, these sounds evoke the sensation of scanning through the architecture of one’s own mind.

Structured after the temporal and procedural logic of an MRI scan, the composition unfolds in five stages: calibration, excitation, acquisition, saturation, and decay. The process mirrors both the medical act of imaging and the psychological act of remembering—each pulse, hum, and spatial shift standing in for the mechanisms through which we reconstruct and reinterpret our past.

As the piece progresses, the sonic field grows denser and less stable. Memories overlap, interfere, and eventually collapse into noise, suggesting how identity itself is shaped and eroded by the technologies that record it. Gradient Echoes examines the contemporary condition in which our digital archives—our galleries, timelines, and clouds—form an external nervous system, endlessly replaying the echoes of who we think we are.

The project remains in active development as an open process of research in sound, perception, and the poetics of technological memory.