Fairy Ring

In development — an interactive sound installation for public space.

A fairy ring is a circle of mushrooms that can appear overnight; folklore often reads it as a threshold or portal. This project takes that image as both scenery and structure: a central tower, dressed in flowers, vines, and moss, sits inside a ring of speakers fed by radio from the tower—an intentional mix of organic matter, CRT glow, and analog transmission.

Visitors see a prompt on the screen and a random symbol for their contribution. They hold a button, speak into a microphone, and their recording joins a shared pool. Voices return through the ring with reverb and spatial movement; the display shows where and when each anonymous “memory” resurfaces. Generative sound weaves underneath—elevating and transforming the crowd of voices over time.

The piece is meant as the echo chamber in its older sense: not a feed of agreement, but a space where many perspectives coexist, fade, and come back around—civic listening in physical form. It grows from the same radio-and-space ideas as earlier work like Frequencies in Transit, pushed toward a standing installation that anyone can walk up to and change.

More documentation, images, and dates will appear here as the work takes shape.