For the Alchemist: A Composition of Debris, Metal, and Dust is an experimental sound composition and performance inspired by Sigmar Polke’s Athanor and his Windows – Fenster at Grossmünster Zürich. Both works transform raw materials into radiant, alchemical forms, revealing processes of flux, transformation, and renewal. The project extends these ideas through sound, exploring instability, elemental interaction, and the thresholds between matter, time, and perception.
Developed through fieldwork in Antarctica, Western Australia, and the Swiss Alps, the composition captures the resonances of natural and industrial materials, forming a system in which sound shifts, corrodes, and recombines like an auditory furnace. Spatialised recordings, environmental textures, and voice converge into a durational sonic environment that reflects fusion, erosion, and planetary rhythms, tracing connections between human and nonhuman agencies across landscapes of change.
