08.Black Room - All fear springs from the unknown2025
Experimental
Sound
Space
Multi-media
Team Member:
Thea Lu
Wenxi Lyu
Sherry Yuxuan Lin
The instinctive fear of the unknown stems from our natural caution toward unpredictability and uncertainty. When vision—our dominant sense—is taken away, the world becomes unfamiliar. In darkness, every creak, whisper, or distant echo becomes a signal—maybe a threat, maybe nothing. In this absence, we become hypersensitive to sound, clinging to the most minor auditory details in search of meaning, orientation, or warning. It is within this ambiguity and heightened awareness that fear begins to take shape.
Through sound, we seek to stir the audience’s most primal instincts—not with clear stories or visual representations but with tones that drift, flicker, and fade. These uncertain, wandering sounds ask questions rather than provide answers: What am I hearing? How close is it? Am I alone here?
This experience blurs perception and emotion. It lies in the space between acoustic design and instinctive reaction. I don’t aim to control what the audience feels—only to let sound awaken something within them. In that space of openness and ambiguity, fear, wonder, and imagination take root—each in their own unique way.
a.Space
During the audience engaging, we avoided all lights from outside the room and made it an absulutely black room.