RIFT: A Sonic Environment for Multi-Timescale Listening - WaterFire Arts Center

The WaterFire Arts Center presents RIFT, a four-day immersive installation by Yuval Gur that transforms the 15,000-square-foot Main Hall into a navigable environment of sound, vibration, resonance, and light. Built from environmental recordings made in Iceland — glacial movement, geothermal activity, underwater tectonic vibration, and atmospheric systems — RIFT is experienced spatially rather than as a traditional composition. Visitors move through shifting layers of sound that change in relation to architecture, proximity, and duration. Low-frequency vibrations embedded in sculptural elements extend the listening experience into the body, allowing geological movement to be physically felt as well as heard.