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Tuning to Place

Module ID400 Master Thesis Project Authors Emma Baumhofer 2026
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Mónica Rikić

Tuning to place is a kinetic sound installation that invites people to listen to the ecological life around Lugano. Drawing on local toad migration and environmental data, a group of sculptural speakers translates changing conditions into a spatial soundscape. Visitors alter the listening experience through their presence, encouraging attention to nonhuman activity and to the ways people shape shared habitats.