Muka di Permukaan (or the Face on the Surface) is a sound installation that presents the noisiness of the information through various media that we can encounter in our daily lives. The confusion becomes a challenge for us to create a holistic understanding of the world. The mediated information is only one layer since there will be other things beneath and happen systematically. This unrest-inducing noise may affect our belief in the scenarios unfolding before us.
If we manage to find deeper layers, will it make any change in society? Or would it just leave us disappointed and upset because everything is out of our reach? That fear kept looming over me, and I tried to keep my distance in observing it. This work is in the form of a domestic cardboard tunnel in which there are two daily soundscapes commonly experienced by people today. The two soundscapes are differentiated based on the origin of the sounds, one from the daily sounds in Indonesia, and one from the daily sounds in South Korea. These two soundscapes are configured to be placed at certain points in the cardboard based on their sound context. Visitors can freely explore the composition they want to hear by exploring the listening space in the tunnel.