Rhythmic Field

… And that question is this: when we look around the world, as scientists have done for the last hundred years, there appear to be about 20 numbers that really describe our universe. These are numbers like the mass of the particles, like electrons and quarks, the strength of gravity, the strength of the electromagnetic force –– a list of about 20 numbers that have been measured with incredible precision, but nobody has an explanation for why the numbers have the particular values that they do. And the wonderful thing is, if I had 20 dials up here and I let you come up and fiddle with those numbers, almost any fiddling makes the universe disappear.

Brian Greene

RHYTHMIC FIELD, 2018

Metronomes, Radios and mirrors
Variable dimensions
Installation view at Tripoli Citadel, Lebanon

These 20 numbers set the rules for our universe, and within these set of rules there are (c lose to) infinite combinations, if we would look to the tiniest of the tiniest particles in our universe, we would find individual strings that vibrate in different frequencies and forms that combined with others eventually form our universe. Every single thing is made up of the combination of different rhythms, every person and every thing we know has it’s own set of rules, characteristics and clocks , societies, cities, planets etc. are formed with these individual “clocks”, … we are the result of millions and millions of combinations.

In this work, the 20 metronomes that rest on top of a mirror, are set ticking at their slowest setting (40bpms), set in motion randomly, generating a soundscape that will eventually end everyday, and then set again in a completely different pattern than the previous one based on chance timing and certain individual decisions, thus the in nite combinations of rhythmic patterns are set in motion. The universe is a symphony of different clocks, and we are nothing but melodies.