In April 2025, Manka Lustigová developed ffairytones modul at the Tangible Music Lab — a modular system for live performance. This project is an artistic exploration in the form of a novel musical instrument, focused on the acoustics of porcelain and digital sound processing. The work embraces the thinness of material forms. The process invites inaccuracies and deviations, allowing the material itself to guide the creative direction and reveal its inner character. This critical exposure reflects a break from the hollow certainties of abundance and consumer reality. As part of the instrument design, physical shapes were analyzed to create an acoustic library of forms. The data was processed using Sonic Visualiser and Praat software. The Tangible Music Lab team supported the development by providing hardware and custom-coded software for a wireless modular system. The tested setup consisted of one Arduino-based sender module and multiple wireless receivers. The acoustic bodies of the porcelain forms are activated through oscillators, producing shimmering, untuned chords that overlap and drift through the ambient space. These complex forms merge the magical, the binary, and the physical into a distinctive sonic landscape.
Manka Lustigová (1998) is a visual artist based in Pardubice. She studied ceramic design at the University of West Bohemia. Her practice explores acoustics, material-based research, and the observation of overlaps and interconnections between materiality and immateriality. The artifacts she creates often blur the line between the living and the inanimate.
