Installation featuring 3,000 loudspeakers each of which plays a different sound channel. Each speaker lights up when it is playing back controlled by a central computer.

As you walk around this auditorium, you can hear wind, then water, fire, ice, over 200 types of insects, over 300 types of birds, bells, bombs and so on, from an extensive archive of diverse field recordings. Please take your time to explore up and down the aisles, take a seat and feel free to enter the rows that have no speakers. You can also view Atmosphonia from the runway and the stage

Two million specks of gold were engraved using nanotechnology techniques at Cornell University. Around 50,000 copies were sprayed in the original exhibition room so they remained floating around in the air, potentially inhaled by the public.

These engravings are 150 atoms thick and are biologically inert so pose no health risk. The rest of the pamphlets are shown suspended in water in a vial with a magnetic stirrer.

The text engraved onto the gold leaflets is an excerpt from “On the permanent Impression of our Words and Actions on the Globe we inhabit”, chapter IX of Charles Babbage’s Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A first edition of the book is shown here along with electron microscope imagery of the nano-pamphlets.

Banderoles (2021) Inspired by Samuel Beckett's play "Not I", this interactive artwork tracks, displays and records the visitor's mouth, using voice recognition to transcribe whatever is said onto a suspended typographical environment.

A. Telegraph key, XIX Century. The Invention of the electric telegraph in 1840 made possible to gather weather information from multiple distant locations, allowing to create the first weather maps.

B. Amazon Echo Smart Speaker cut in half by water jet, revealing a seven-piece networked microphone array that is always on.

C. Anemometer Wind Flow Meter in Orr & Lockett Box, Short & Mason London (late 19c).

D. Sandhurst Boxwood Protractor (c1850) by Elliot, Strand, London.

E. Occupation of Garzweiler coal mine in Germany, June 2019. Activists are protesting plans to destroy ancient Hambach Forest to expand the mine. Garzweiller produces 35 million tons of coal per year. Videos from @parkpilger and @joanielemercier.

F. Taxidermied canary in antique bird cage.

G. Stanley London 2453 Brass Surveying Aneroid Barometer w/Magnifier (c1850)

H. Digital camera (2016) runs OpenCV to detect your face using a deep neural network machine learning model (DNN ML). Another DNN ML then extracts 120 features, which are reduced to 2 by a tSNE algorithm so they can be placed in a comparative grid.

I. Early Victorian hand painted Magic Lantern Chromatrope Slide by W.E.& F. Newton of Fleet Street (1852). Babbage was a member of a ghost society for the study of the supernatural and enjoyed phantasmagoria exhibitions.

J. Holy Bible, Oxford University Press (1841). Key sacred texts have been atmospherically “revealed”, for example Torah to Moses, Psalms to David, Evangel to the Evangelists and the Quran to Muhammad.

K. Custom-made atmospheric CO2 measurement device by Stephan Schulz. High CO2 concentrations indoors indicate stagnant air where airborne virus transmission such as Covid-19 is more likely."

Text display with 1,600 ultrasonic atomizers, controlled by voice recognition system. This display writes any words spoken into an intercom using pure water vapour. The atomizers are typically used for cold water humidifiers. The artwork uses AI speech to text algorithms to transcribe whatever is being said, from single words to full sentences.

Robotic light beacon, controlled by voice root mean square power. A point of light rotates around the room in exactly one minute. The intensity of the dot is inversely proportional to the volume of the participant’s voice. After releasing the intercom button an echo is heard from past recordings.

Mechanical respirator circulating the breath of composer Pauline Oliveros. A brown paper bag inflates and deflates 10,000 times a day, the normal respiratory frequency for an adult at rest. The bag contains the breath of Avant Garde American composer Pauline Oliveros, developer of the concept of “Deep Listening”. Oliveros died on Nov 24, 2016 but her breath continues circulating in this biometric portrait.

Laryngoscopic video, LED display, computer, speakers, oil drums. Five Northern actors agreed to read Babbage’s Ninth Bridgewater Treatise during an endoscopic filming. A camera was introduced into their nose, reaching their vocal folds and cords. The films show the exact mechanism by which our body actuates the atmosphere to create speech.

Ripple tank controlled by polyphonic pitch detection actuation. The voices of two participants who speak into the intercoms are analyzed and converted into notes hammered by motorized components. The resulting waves interact creating unique patterns.

Speech bubble, printed in steel, capturing the air turbulence ejected as a sentence is spoken. Made with laser tomography scans (shown in video), photogrammetry and 3D printing. The phrase chosen was “Au clair de la lune” — the first ever human voice recorded by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860, seventeen years before Edison’s.

Pneumatic turbulence generator controlled by Mel-frequency cepstrum voice analysis. This piece features 99 brass arrows inspired by anemometers and weather vanes, the devices used to measure wind speed and direction. Here the live voices control miniature computerized fans that create turbulence. When seen from above the table looks like a map of wind barbs or vectors.