#12 Mitochronia : Participants : Zhenzhen Tian #12

'Repetitive Symphony' is a pictorial representation of an installation art piece. The installation consists of 40 flower pots, 20 rain sensors, audio modules, speakers, and an Arduino IDE used to simulate rainfall. Water droplets fall from the upper flower pots onto the rain sensors in the lower pots, with each sensor preset to a note in the C major scale. When a droplet strikes a rain sensor, it produces a random note, which is emitted through a speaker, weaving together into a natural symphony. These notes are recorded by audio software and subsequently layered onto a musical stave.

This work reflects the mapping of the uncontrollable, probabilistic environment of the external world. Through time, water, sound, sensors, and recording software, it seeks to reveal a non-hierarchical epistemology of unpredictability and collectivity. At the same time, it explores the historical frequency of events and humanity’s various attempts to predict the unpredictable.

I see Repetitive Symphony connecting to the Mitochondria theme through the idea of emergent systems and symbiotic processes. The work is structured as a distributed environment in which individual droplets act as discrete triggers, generating sound through interaction with sensors. These isolated events accumulate into a collective sonic field, without central control.

This resonates with the evolutionary narrative of mitochondria: once independent organisms, later integrated into a host system, where their function becomes essential to a larger structure. In a similar way, each droplet in the work operates autonomously, yet contributes to a shared system that only exists through cooperation and interaction.

The installation also reflects on the translation of external environmental forces into internalised processes. Rainfall, unpredictable and probabilistic, is captured, processed, and transformed into sound, echoing how biological systems absorb and convert external energy into metabolic activity.

In this sense, the work can be understood as a non-biological analogue to metabolic and symbiotic systems: a space where randomness, repetition, and interaction give rise to structure, rhythm, and continuity over time.

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