Wishing Well

The Wishing Well is an interactive sound installation, activated through audience interaction, performances and workshops. It consists of both a space to inhabit, and at its centre a self-made instrument working as a randomized loop station. The musical activations of the piece were designed in collaboration with the British composer and singer-songwriter Alex Olloman. And more recently, the Dutch sound engineer and programmer Nathan Marcus joined the team to strengthen the programming and sound technology. The work appears as a shrine for voices, a sacred place of vocal archive. At its centre is the sculpture of the Wishing Well, inside which audiences are invited to share their voice. The Well records their offerings and creates an evolutive soundscape randomly moving in space using an algorithm I built in the PureData sound software. Through complex programming the Wishing Well combines the wishes and voices shared by people who have passed by it at different times. The audience’s involvement creates a communal, evolving piece that fuses sounds and algorithmic thinking into an archive. Voices of past visitors still echo in the present when new audience joins in, they resonate.