Black Hole Horizon

The installation consists of three sculptures of different sizes made of polyurethane, which, similar to ship horns, emerge in exponential funnels.

They increase in size with the sound duration, eventually detach from the horn and float  through the room until they burst at an unpredictable moment and location in the space.

In line with Kubli's interest in working with composition software, he created an algorithm that utilizes probability and chance operations to control the three sculptures.

He also found inspiration in the historical noise generators Intonarumori by the futuristic painter and composer Luigi Russolo and in the natural trumpets Dungchen, which are played on Tibetan ceremonials.

As part of a collaboration with the Architecture Department of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and EMPAC, Troy, New York, a first version of the work was realized in summer 2012.

[4] From August 20 to September 1, 2012, Kubli presented the first functional version of Black Hole Horizon at EMPAC's Studio2 in Troy, New York.

[7] Because of its strong visual quality and general accessibility for the public regardless of age and cultural background, the work was received predominantly positively by art critics and curators.

The art critic Dominique Moulon noted: "The spectacle of these autonomous bubbles represents a range of frequencies of variable duration and relative strangeness, that all brings us back to our childhood.

"[8] The art and media scientist Marcel René Marburger wrote: "Starting with the probability-based electronic impulses, we are dealing with a chain of coincidences in which we are all representing the last link.