Cache

2025
Sound installation

Materials: Found audio recordings, electronic sound, Eurorack modular system.

Cache begins with a cassette and Sony Walkman given to me by my father at Christmas in 1983, three days before he died. I was eight years old. The cassette has stayed with me ever since, marking the beginning of a relationship with sound and music that has continued throughout my life.

One recording in particular stayed with me. In Cache, I return to that recording and subject it to extreme time-stretching, extending a few minutes of sound towards the duration of a human lifetime. As the recording expands, traces of the original dissolve into sustained tones and near-stasis.

At its conceptual limit, the expanded recording would require approximately 445 terabytes of storage. The impossibility of rendering, storing and listening to the complete signal becomes the basis for a proposed sculpture.

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59:45 loop
Stereo

Sculptural development

The proposed sculpture consists of 445 one-terabyte hard drives stacked vertically as a single column, representing the storage required by the expanded signal.

The form translates this inaccessible duration into physical scale. Digital storage becomes a measure of time, accumulating into an architectural form whose scale exceeds the body and the lifetime through which the original recording has been carried.