Sonic Artefacts


2025

Sound-light Installation,
Generative system, Electronics, Programming

Concept development, design, programming, electronics,assembly: Bilge Günay İçözü


Sonic Artefacts is a sound–light sculpture that reveals the hidden infrastructures of technology by treating its components not as tools, but as subjects in themselves. What you see is what you hear: the technology is both the medium and the subject. When isolated and framed transparently, simple industrial elements become expressive, shifting from functional objects to sonic and visual performers. Rather than focusing on narrative, the project draws attention to patterns and details that are normally hidden and mundane in everyday life.
Through Sonic Artefacts, I aim to reframe the aesthetics of electronic components and everyday found objects, transforming overlooked mechanisms of technology into visible and audible phenomena. The project invites reflection on how technological systems shape our sensory environment and our relationship with technological infrastructures.

The project uses electromechanical relays housed in a transparent acrylic enclosure. Their mechanical clicks and flashes of light create real-time rhythmic patterns controlled through custom programming.
Exhibitions
Sonic Artefacts is developed as part of my studies at LABA Valencia, Spain and was part of MICME Interactive Art Festival, June 2025.


more details - MICME de Arte Interactivo 2025

Second edition of Sonic Artefacts was part of an artist led collective Digital Art Experience Archivo Cero in Valencia, November 2025.