Cacophonic Choir - Virtual Experience

Cacophonic Choir is an award winning interactive sound installation aimed at bringing attention to the first-hand stories of sexual assault survivors, and the distortions those stories are subjected to in digital mass media. We do this through rethinking the relationship between the narrator and the listener; in this case, the survivor and the public.

Cacophonic Choir is composed of nine individual voices that are each embedded in physical structures that are distributed in space. Altogether, from a distance, these voices form an unintelligible choir. Within this choir, each voice has a unique story to tell. These narratives are not static, however; they transform as a visitor approaches. Fragmented and distorted at first, the voices respond to the visitor’s bodily presence, and their narratives become clearer and more coherent as one gets closer.