Impulse

Impulse

Alina Ling + Louis Quek

Which is faster - light or sound?

Blurring the boundaries in our perception, the work attempts to test how well we can discern the speed of stimuli. Drawing from scenarios where speed directs experience, impulse explores the glitches in our experience of moving sound and light. The installation orchestrates sequences of sonic and visual pulses that challenge the stimulus rate, intended to disrupt our senses and expectation.

Referencing scenes where speed is a parameter, Impulse features 4 compositions of sound and light that play with different tempos and break momentum:

Track 1 - Circuit