APOLOGY OF DESPAIR. OBJECT NO. 4

Sound installation by Artūrs Punte & Jēkabs Voļatovskis The specially made microphone receives sound waves from the environment that are below the audible range (0.2–20 Hz). One of the peculiarities of these waves is their ability, despite any physical obstacles, to spread quite far from their source on their way towards us. As a result, we can observe the installation’s speaker ‘play back’ what is constantly ‘emitting sound’ around us, but which our hearing cannot detect: air mass collisions, trucks and t