“she could be shy”
Interactive Multi Media Experience
August 2025
Multiple plants were connected to impulse sensors recording electrical output at the Topanga tower in the mountains of Southern California. Of the plants recorded, the Coyote Mint had a unique character opposed to the other plants recorded. This plant would not output electrical signal when closely observed. At a distance, however, the plant would output. When the artist walked away, the plant would get quiet again. This unusual expression of electrical signal gave the flower the unique quality of being “shy”. This experience was recreated in the 4D Audio Lab at NYU’s Tisch Campus in New York where viewers could experience the sonic piece - every note was played by the original live plant. When attendees got too close to the work the sound would go out yet an approach on any four sides would activate a different piece of sonic composition. Attendees emulated pollinator-like behaviors in the documentation of its presentation drawing an interesting parallel between vibrational communication.
“BASS BATH”
Immersive Sonic Experience
January 2025
Bass Bath explores the physical nature of bass frequencies. Metal covers capture mechanical energy from speakers strategically placed around a pool. Original bass heavy sonic works are played through the speakers with the metal traps bringing the bass energy into the water causing visible ripples from each speaker location. This unusual expression of sonic energy created by Arressai is a physics based interpretation of a “sound bath” highlighting water’s sonic permeability. This is a collectable, immersive, poolside experience.
“HER”
SAUNTER HOME WELLNESS CLUB | JOSHUA TREE, CA
JAMES HAUNT, Arressai, VERONICA GABRIEL-LABARRIE, DAVID IRWIN, HILARY SLOANE, SALVADOR
December 8th, 2021 - January 4th, 2022
video courtesy of Brian Gonzalez
INNER WORLD OF A WOMAN explores themes of feminine power and emergence by means of an immersive sound installation. Viewers were invited to meditate in the cavernous structure with the artist’s light sculpture synced to the undulating sounds of the piece where themes of regeneration, birth and death permeate the space. A recording of simple conversation and a closet of lit clothing echo the separation from the outer and inner worlds and the potence of the feminine force of creation.
“Blood Box, THe MOst pertinent tumor”
FLOW BERLIN | BERLIN, Germany
ARRESSAI, SOFIANNA KOHTAKANGAS, SOPHIE SCHEiFELE, OLIVIER SCHLUND, ELLA SCHOEFER-WuLF
December 7th and 8th, 2018
In the immersive sound installation THE MOST PERTINENT TUMOUR attendees were invited to interact with the shibari tied sculpture, noting the fetishization of dis-ease. Participants were called to action through the physical confrontation of the form and the provision of boxing gloves as a device for interaction. Microphones amplified the user experience in real time creating a reverberation of sonic response to physical action.
Blood Box is a philosophical exploration of the temporal and ephemeral. After going on a backpacking excursion to Apple Valley’s Deep Creek, Cline noticed a bluish glow underwater emanating in an outline of her body. This conjured an exploration of the body as container for both flesh and an intangible and unexplainable essence that fuels the synergy of the bodies function.
The piece gained gravity over its creation, becoming a deeply personal work exploring loss, vulnerability, catharsis and regeneration.
"HERE” MUT_LA | los angeles, CA Jon pylypchuk, john mascaro, ARRESSAI
August 2018
DISSEMINATION I & II explores the implication of timely information dispersion in the digital age and the suggested effect on human behavior.
