XYZ Sound Sculptures
Marcos Micozzi & Hef Prentice
A system that turns sound into form.
XYZ Sound Sculptures is an immersive installation that merges sculpture, music, and animation, materialising sound as a sculptural event. The work turns acoustic vibration into three-dimensional form through a system that captures the invisible spatial coordinates of musical performance across the X, Y, and Z axes. Marcos Micozzi, an architect, audio engineer, and data scientist, uses virtual reality devices to record the path of instruments performed by Desmond Cheese in immersive live sessions. From these sonic-spatial maps, visual artist Hef Prentice digitally models organic sculptures, which are then 3D-printed in polylactic acid (PLA).
The work reverses the historical paradigm that holds that form produces sound. Here, sound generates form. This operation constitutes a significant contribution to contemporary thinking on generative processes in art, intersecting with research in parametric design, data visualisation, and computational aesthetics. Just as in parametric architecture, where geometry responds to environmental or structural data, here sculptural morphology emerges directly from the physical properties of sound.
XYZ proposes an emerging alphabet: a visual–spatial–acoustic grammar that anticipates modes of cognition not yet articulated. The sculptures function as glyphs from a potential language — perhaps readable by future or non-human intelligences.
The work also explores sound non-linearly, as it ceases to be a temporal event and acquires body, density, and architectural presence. Once made tangible as an object, the acoustic phenomenon simultaneously reveals its past, present, and future.
Curatorial text by Ruth Geoffroy
Exhibitions
2026 The Screen, OFFF Barcelona — Barcelona, Spain
2026 DYSTOPIA / UTOPIA, Critical Mass x We Are The Future, Immerse HK — Hong Kong
2026 Death? Yes/No/Maybe, A Hidden Variable — Berlin, Germany
2025 XYZ, HAVEN Gallery — Byron Bay, Australia
2025 Pertinacious, LumiNoir ART Gallery — London, UK
2025 BAIFF Venice Film Festival, AI Art Video Shortlist — Venice, Italy
2025 Industria Ritual, Simposio 04, MUTEK AR x Comite 357 — Buenos Aires, Argentina
2025 Ghosts in the Feedback Loop, Permanent Virtual Exhibition, UAAD Technomirage — New York, USA
2023 Live VR Ambient Performance, Brisbane Street Art Festival — Brisbane, Australia
2023 Live VR Ambient Performance, Lone Goat Gallery — Byron Bay, Australia
2023 Sound Sculptures, Lone Goat Gallery — Byron Bay, Australia
2022 Live VR Ambient Performance, Elevator ARI — Byron Bay, Australia
2022 Sound Sculptures Installation, SAE University — Byron Bay, Australia
Recognition
Longlisted — ArtEvol 2025, Saatchi Gallery London
Shortlisted — BAIFF AI Film Festival, Venice 2025
Shortlisted — Berlin Fashion Film Festival 2024
Shortlisted — SAE International Awards, Cologne 2025
Shortlisted — SAE International Awards, Frankfurt 202
Publications
2025 Prompt Magazine Issue 16
2025 Techno Mirage Archive
Collaborators
Marcos Micozzi — Concept, Spatial Audio, Data
Hef Prentice — Concept, Digital Sculpture, Visual Art
Desmond Cheese — Live Instrument Performance
Curatorial Consulting — Ruth Geoffroy, Facundo Alcala