NORMIFICATION

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About: NORMIFICATION is the outcome of a sustained collaboration between Florian Hecker, Marcin Pietruszewski, and the graphic design studio NORM (Dimitri Bruni, Manuel Krebs, Ludovic Varone). Initiated in 2016, the project transposes graphic design procedures and algorithmic formalisms into sound synthesis and composition. The work engages auditory display — the field concerned with rendering non-speech information perceptible as sound — but rather than translate data for representation, it probes the interplay between structure, perception, and sonic materiality (Kramer 1994). Central to the project is this bidirectional movement between data and sound: from graphic algorithm to sonic event and, conversely, from audio signal back into structured data. Synthesis is treated not as an endpoint but as a provisional rendering within a larger transformational loop. The result is a compositional ecology in which sound functions not as a representational surface but as a site of procedural inscription, continuously shaped through formal constraints, algorithmic operations, and iterative transformation.