Interactive Installation · Commission

Speech Bubbles

Commission · MKIAC Art in the Park Festival

Speak into a microphone. Your words inflate a balloon. It shimmers with colour. The sounds of your speech replay in the room, woven into a musical score, a celebration of voice, diversity, and the languages that connect us.

Speech Bubbles, large illuminated speech-bubble structures in public park at night. Development render.
Commission MKIAC
Venue Art in the Park Festival

Speak into a microphone. Your words inflate a balloon, it shimmers and shifts colour shaped by the quality of your voice. The room fills with the accumulated sounds of everyone who has spoken before you.

Speech Bubbles was commissioned for the MKIAC Art in the Park Festival, a piece about voice as material, and the idea that every voice, in any language with any accent, deserves to be held, amplified, and celebrated.

Full installation view, multiple balloons inflated at different sizes, shimmering with colour in the space.

The musical score was designed as a scaffold that catches voices and makes them beautiful regardless of their character. A whisper becomes intimate. A shout becomes celebratory. A song fills the room.

The piece stands as a fully realised work available for future exhibition, scalable from intimate gallery settings to outdoor festival environments.

Detail, balloon surface shimmering with RGB light, colour at peak inflation.
Credits
Musical Score & Vocal Concept Catherine Ireton
Electronics & Balloon System Luis Berna Moya
Commission MKIAC

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