APOLOGY OF DESPAIR. OBJECT NO. 2

Sound installation by Artūrs Punte Jēkabs Voļatovskis Using a thermoacoustic effect and randomised feeding, five glass tubes of different lengths sound in a random sequence for a randomly selected amount of time; their cooling time is also chosen at Despite the complete automation of this conditionally generative piece, our perception makes us search and listen for melody fragments, a humancomposed choice of chords, or other compositional elements that are not actually there. Thermoacoustic