The Sound of Clouds and other Sonic Memories, 2026 

Project by Joel Ong, in collaboration with Omar Shabbar and Kieran Maraj

My role: Research Assistant; material research and sculpture support

Image Siting: The Ammerman Center 18th Triennial on Arts & Technology at Connecticut College, 2026

13 x 8 x 20 in (x3)

3D print, plaster, stainless steel, headphones

The project is a research-creation process that incorporates various aspects of emerging paradigms and politics in the listening process, namely:

• the development of a multi-sensory (as opposed to ocular centric) database of personal history;

• the attention to the affect, poetics and abstraction through sound;

• the emerging focus on colonial legacies of listening, recording and composition;

• and the connection of spoken word to composition that places music in service to the voice in addition to its intrinsic poetic value.

These, coupled with developments in immersive sound recording techniques that enable us to recreate with incredible fidelity the sounds that enter our ears, give rise to the work that is part curation, part composition and all about listening – and creating opportunities for a transformative politics of such listening.

– Joel Ong

Learn more: https://www.arkfrequencies.com/the-sound-of-clouds-and-other-sonic-memories/