Perceptronic Pond

Type: Sound Installation
Materials: Field Recording, Raspberry Pi 5, Speakers
Year: 2025
Exhibition: AI-Extended Environment, UdK Rundgang 2025

A sound installation attempts to construct a habitat derived from field recordings taken near a pond in Sauen. Soundscapes were captured, segmented into micro-fragments lasting a few milliseconds, and restructured via a generative system inspired by the structure of multilayer perceptrons.

The Pure Data patch driving the work acts as a synthetic nervous system, processing and recombining the original recordings in real time. Rather than looping samples, it continuously reshapes the fragments into clusters and dispersions of varying density.

Running on a Raspberry Pi 5, this digital habitat sustains a species of frog-like hybrid sound. Perceptronic Pond simulates a part of listening ecology, where clusters of calls gather without bodies. Its variations develop through interlocking biorhythms, conjuring a digital lifeform that emerges from sound.