Sebastian Leopold
Over the past five years, my artistic practice has continuously developed at the intersections of sound, space and material, shaped by a systematic exploration of resonance, perception and performative experience. Starting with early experiments with physical objects and their inherent resonances, I developed an interest in how structures and materials absorb, transform and return vibrations into space. This phase marked the beginning of an intensive exploration of the balance between control and the unpredictable behaviour of complex systems.
Building on this, the focus shifted to the connection between internal and external resonance spaces, the perception of one’s own physical and psychological resonance, and interaction with environmental impulses. In this phase, the emphasis was increasingly on intertwining material, physical and electronic processes, thus understanding structures as dynamic instruments whose behaviour can be observed, modulated and reflected upon over time.
In parallel, a performative approach developed in which space, structure and audience enter into continuous interaction. The work focused on the design of immersive experiential situations in which physical vibrations, temporal processes and sensory perception merge into a coherent, shared experience. This step expanded the concept of resonance from a purely acoustic phenomenon to an integrative principle for perception, interaction and reflection.
Recent works have demonstrated the consistent synthesis of all these developments: biological materials, industrial structures and electronic manipulation become an organic unity that makes time, aggregation and observation tangible. The work is now an ongoing dialogue between control and chance, body and material, inner perception and outer effect – an experimental approach that explores both the poetic and physical dimensions of resonance.
