Franziska Windisch presents On Random Walks (2025)
she/her
22 May–20 June | de Brakke Grond
On Random Walks (2025) by Brussels-based artist Franziska Windisch is an installation in which vibrating chains move between order and unpredictability. Set into motion by inaudible low frequencies, their shifting patterns generate a constantly evolving sonic field, where knots form and dissolve, and small movements accumulate into complex, spatial compositions. An array of brass plates is set into vibration at infrasonic frequencies, diffused by subwoofers. A bead chain is placed in the center of each plate. Excited by very low, inaudible oscillations, they start to move in unpredictable ways, leading at times to spontaneous knot formations of varying complexity, as well as their instantaneous dissolution. The bouncing strings, in turn, slightly strike the brass plates and create a pulsating field that constantly shifts over time as visitors walk through it and change their perspective.
Credits: A production of Overtoon Brussels and STUK Leuven, with the support of the Kunstendecreet Vlaanderen
About the artist
Franziska Windisch is a sound artist and lecturer based in Brussels, working across performance and installation. Her practice centres on processes of transformation and perception, creating situations in which sound, movement, language, and material enter into shifting, poetic relations. Moving beyond representational modes, Windisch develops scores as open structures, where internal states and external conditions interact and unfold over time. Listening into matter, places and situations, her work is dedicated to processes of transformation and perception.
Her work has been presented internationally at festivals and institutions including HEAR/HERE, Tuned City, Klangkunstfestival Intraregionale, Oscillations, RIXC Art Science Festival, KIKK Festival, Tsonami Festival de Arte Sonoro, Meakusma, Brückenmusik, and FILE Festival. She currently teaches sound art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Saar.
