Entanglements is an interactive audiovisual installation explicating a fundamental phenomenon which shapes our relationship with the universe, namely quantum entanglement. Through a novel interface that combines sight, sound and touch, actual quantum entanglement phenomena are created and expressed through unique sonic signatures. In incorporating precision scientific devices, this project is not simply speculative, but it is also not didactic or scientifically reductive. Two connected road-cases contain a custom built photon entanglement device comprising a laser, a Barium Borate crystal, two single photon detectors, synthesizer, and an audio-haptic interface.
This practice-led research demonstrates how subatomic quantum phenomena can be be visualised/sonified, and how the strange reality of quantum entanglement can be revealed through aesthetic experience. A key question raised by expressive manifestations of quantum phenomena is the relationship between the phenomena and the observer. Through aesthetic observation of entangled systems, this work facilitates their material capacity to be ‘knowable’.