Index of Echoes explores how memory is structured through sound.
Since arriving in Dresden, I have been collecting short audio recordings from everyday life. Over nearly eight years, this process has resulted in an archive of more than eighty fragments. For this installation, I selected recordings that function less as private documents and more as spaces of collective resonance.
The material consists intentionally of sound rather than video. Sound is less observational and more present – it remains in space and within the body.
The original recordings were translated through a trained AI model into a quiet, artificial voice based on my own speech. This creates a process of internalization: memories no longer appear as external documents, but as embodied background murmurs.
In its resting state, the installation appears restrained.
Yet it holds layered echoes – memory does not disappear; it changes form.
The installation consists of individual interactive objects.
A recording is only activated when an object is lifted and moved. Memory is not automatically presented; it is triggered through action.
This principle frames memory as a physical process.
Lifting, turning, or holding an object changes the system’s state.
The sound fragments are also translated into animated drawings, creating a dual archive – acoustic and visual.
Memory does not appear as a fixed image here, but as something situationally activated – dependent on proximity, movement, and attention.
