The Pluviophone – an acoustic rain monitoring station – designed as a large-scale resonator, monitors precipitation as both a scientific device and sonic instrument. Contact microphones and glass resonators capture the acoustic imprints of raindrops, allowing intensity, time scale, and drop-size distribution to be studied through sound. Beyond generating data, the installation transforms these signals into evolving soundscapes, making these environmental phenomena tangible as sensory experience and mediating forms of acoustic knowledge production.

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The project was co-produced by Jan Christian Schulz & Mauricio Valdes San Emeterio and V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media & PiNA – Kulturno Izobraževalno Društvo as part of Summer Sessions art and technology residencies.