Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber
Takten von Masse (Studies in Timing Spectra)

Takten von Masse (Studies in Timing Spectra) is a prismatic decomposition of time and a study in minimal frequency differences. It takes as its starting point two different models from particle physics that predict slightly different mass spectra for the same particles—like two bells cast from different materials that sound almost, but not exactly, alike. Sound and electromagnetic phenomena converge at one crucial point in physics: both are oscillations, both possess spectra, and their description follows the same mathematical structures.

The piece exploits this coincidence to transpose quantum mechanical models into acoustic situations: resonating bodies whose eigenfrequencies map the mass states of the particles; sound fields that glide between the two theories; rhythms in which the spectrum becomes a temporal distribution. What emerges is an attempt to translate information from a spectrally structured world into the sensory realm where humans can most acutely perceive spectra: sound.