Paloma Kop

Decoherence, 2019

7:45 | Watch on: Youtube Peertube

Decoherence is an audiovisual composition made with sound waves, water, and granular and spectral processing. A 60 cycle drone from a speaker cone below creates subtle patterns on the liquid surface, which grows increasingly turbulent. This piece explores interference patterns, the interplay of macro and microscopic patterns, chaos and continuua.

As a companion to this piece, I also created a short zine that would later become part of my mfa thesis book. Find some excerpts below, or read the whole thing as a pdf (9 MB).

Cover of Decoherence zine, with the title written on the front in decreasingly distorted forms Page 4, cymatics Page 5, my experiments Page 9, thoughts