Watch Heaney’s talk at the 15th Gwangju Biennale Symposium on the Guggenheim Museum website.

“Echoes of Tomorrow: Soundscapes in the Age of Advanced Computing

This event focuses on the intersection of sound and technology—specifically, the role of advanced technologies in transforming sound beyond traditional acoustic or digital recordings. The shift from recording technologies to recursive technologies is an epistemic shift, both in matter and meaning, in content and intent.

As we approach the era of quantum computing, it is timely to reconsider our relationship with sound—both technologically and sonically. While most of the discussions focus on sound within the realm of classical computation and Newtonian physics, topics will also introduce perspectives from quantum mechanics, where these familiar laws no longer apply and sound becomes a different physical phenomena.”