The sound installation Swarmm investigates the relationship between noise, computation, climate, labour and bodily presence. 

The installation is composed of swarms of computer fans, usually used to cool digital systems. Here, the fans emerge as sonic and physical traces of digital labour and technological infrastructure. The swarm system is controlled by temperature, combining the room’s current temperature with historical climate data from Trondheim in 1972. The thermal gap between then and now becomes the compositional engine: the greater the divergence, the higher the frequency of change. As the audience’s bodies emit heat, they become part of the installation simply by being present. 

In this way, Swarmm locates coexistence within the infrastructures that surround us—and in the residual noise of processes that were never meant to be heard.