Sound Constructions is a collaborative collective between Leilehua Anne Lanzilotti, Senem Pirler, and Nina C. Young, who together create ephemeral site-specific performative sculptures. These environments become a means of discovering a place, and improving a sonic language that explores the relationships between interior and exterior, close and far, fragile and long-lasting.

The first site-specific work was originally created on and for the Montalvo Arts Center in June 2018, in collaboration with Art Forum. Using a combination of found objects from the grounds and sound sculptures built from industrial materials, mobile sculptures invite interplay, and are connected with contact microphones, cameras, video projectors, and a network of speakers. By choosing specific found objects, we amplify only certain sounds that normally might not be heard. The installation is an exploration of these objects and presence, asking: How does taking things out of their natural environment create tension? With closeness of both the visual projections and style of amplification, are we actually closer to the objects and/or each other? As we have collected these things in order to build an environment, how do we touch them, give them focus, and ultimately let them go?

The exterior pagoda features eucalyptus speaker sculptures that rotate in the wind, listening to the interior spaces, and bringing the outside sounds into the exterior soundscape.