Monochromes

Monochromes

Monochromes is a hybrid project mixing music,
light and colour into a chromatic alphabet.

Monochromes is an audiovisual installation by Yannick Jacquet and composer/double bassist Otto Lindholm exploring the relationship between sound, light and perception.

Built around twelve minimalist compositions for double bass and loopers, the project forms a kind of chromatic alphabet: twelve notes, twelve colours, twelve immersive atmospheres where sound and light continuously shape one another.

Inside a darkened space, musical frequencies slowly activate a series of custom-built light structures. Colours shift almost imperceptibly. Surfaces glow, pulse and fade through subtle gradients and internal movements. Rather than illustrating the music, the light extends its textures, tensions and silences into space.

Influenced by monochrome painting, synesthetic perception and research surrounding EMDR, Monochromes invites visitors into a slower and more contemplative state of attention. The installation unfolds gradually, encouraging an experience that is both physical and introspective.

With Monochromes, Otto Lindholm and Yannick Jacquet explore slowness as a way of resisting the saturation of contemporary visual culture, creating temporary spaces where attention can drift, settle and expand.