Music Box Interior (Floor #3) by Bella Kiser
Opening Reception: August 23, 2025 3-5pm
Closing Reception and Artist Talk: September 13, 2025 2-3pm
Music Box Interior invites visitors to lie down, press their face into darkness, and listen. Quilted with care the rust-colored bed-like sculpture contains hidden microphones that amplify the user’s breath in real time. What begins as a private act of inhale and exhale, becomes a shared soundscape, offered outward.
The space is designed for one or two bodies. When occupied by two, the piece becomes a quiet choreography of mutual regulation. Breath may sync or drift apart, revealing patterns of anxiety, rest, attunement, or interruption. The experience is meditative, intimate, and subtly tense in the presence of another.
Echoing Bella’s interest in sound ecology and Murray Schafer’s concept of the “soundscape,” the piece reframes the act of listening as a form of care. It is not a retreat from the world, but a way to stay within it—through body, breath, and stillness. Listening becomes a kind of touch, a way of being with another, even in silence.