Eva Beazar

White Noise of the Room is an ongoing research project exploring the relationship between sound, space and the invisible. It begins with sounds recorded in everyday environments: metal, a metro train, a conversation in a café, a parking garage, a twelve-hour recording of the night, noise, or the sound of an empty room. Sound strongly shapes how we experience a space. It is present and felt, yet cannot be seen directly.

The project asks a central question: what is the physical form of sound, and how might its vibrations become visible? Through experiments with schlieren imaging — an optical technique that visualises subtle changes in air density — I investigate how amplified sound can leave visible traces. Still images extracted from these experiments are further transformed in the darkroom and transferred onto materials such as fabric, stone and metal. These materials become part of the translation between sound and image.

The work is still in process and its final form remains open. Current experiments explore how movement, water, smoke, vapour and heat might make sound visible, possibly even in real time. Rather than illustrating sound literally, the project searches for an image that carries something of its atmosphere, presence and physical effect within a space.