Francesco Zedde

A Sound Fog

STWST Hauszwischenraum und 1. Stock
Part of Exhibition: durchgehend zu sehen

Step into a manufactured wilderness—an electronic forest of sound. Here, each circuit behaves like a light-sensitive organism, responding to brightness with whistles, buzzes, hums, and hisses that echo the rhythms of a living ecosystem. As you move through the space, your shadow disrupts the sonic emissions, making you an active participant in this artificial biophony.

Thicket explores our estrangement from nature through intentional technological failure. These devices enact a grotesque parody of our efforts to recreate the wild—more plastic flower than real bloom, more geometric garden than thriving landscape. Can we truly flourish among imitations of what we once belonged to? The soundscape evolves from day to night, creating a meditative yet unsettling atmosphere that lays bare the uneasy distance between the natural world and its human-made substitutes.

This is both a listening experience and a critique—a space where technology offers not comfort, but a distorted reflection of our relationship with nature.

Francesco Zedde (he/him, b. 1993, Italy) is a musician, performer, and circuit-bending enthusiast. His practice explores musical events as forms of social engagement through DIY strategies and extreme music. He works with drums and electronics, often using self-made or hacked devices to create original sonic environments. He performs noise music under the name Tonto, produces electronic music as Tacet Tacet Tacet, and co-founded the Discomfort Dispatch concert series. Zedde builds augmented instruments, creates interactive installations, and leads workshops on circuit bending.

Photo courtesy of Henrietta Muller, Nia Konstantinova, Rotterdam, Worm, September 2020