Affective nodes is a sound piece that investigates listening as an embodied and spatial practice. Developed during the Tekhné micro-residency – invited by CTM Festival – at Festival Oscillation in Q-O2 in Brussels, the work explores how sonic perception is shaped not only by sound itself but also by the position and movement of the listening body. The piece consists of two pure sine tones emitted continuously from opposite ends of the room. While neither the sound sources nor the composition change over time, the perceived sound constantly transforms as the body moves through the space, revealing zones where frequencies reinforce, interfere with, or nearly cancel one another.

The work was created through a performative process of listening in which I slowly moved through the room, producing a continuous stereo recording from different listening positions. Rather than documenting a fixed acoustic situation, the recording traces an embodied encounter with the space, mapping subtle shifts in sound pressure, rhythm and timbre through movement. Guided by sensory and affective responses, sometimes drawn toward certain resonances, sometimes pushed away by discomfort, the body becomes both listener and participant within the acoustic field. The resulting recording remains unedited, preserving the immediacy of the experience and foregrounding listening as a process of co-implication between body, sound and architecture.