Marius Troy, Stephen Mark Kübler, Andreas Ihlebaek, Christine Ovstedal, Daniel Funke, Frido Evers, Rosa Hernández

2025, Oslo

The HEKA Chamber is an 80-square-metre immersive portal designed for profound inner exploration. Within its walls, sound and music transform into living visuals in real time, unfolding across a ceiling that the audience gazes upon while reclining on a wave-shaped floor. As the chamber responds, each tone ripples through light and form, dissolving the boundaries of the material world. The space’s contours, textures, and presence draw participants into a shared yet deeply personal journey inward, an odyssey of sight, sound, and self.

HEKA premiered at Tad in Oslo from January 7 to February 15, 2025, accompanied by twenty-five intimate piano concerts. Each performance featured original compositions created for the HEKA Chamber by classical composer and pianist Andreas Ihlebæk.

The chamber is equipped with a network of microphones that can triangulate the location of a sound. The signal and its corresponding frequency is then transformed in real-time into moving shapes.

HEKA installation is an immersive portal into the unseen realms of consciousness, an alchemical blend of light, sound, and space that invites deep inner exploration. Drawing from ancient mysticism and future-facing technology, HEKA manifests as a living environment where shifting atmospheres respond to presence, intention, and silence. Layers of generative visuals pulse with ritual rhythm, while ambient frequencies guide visitors through a sensory rite of passage. As both sanctuary and mirror, the installation dissolves the boundary between self and cosmos, offering a profound reconnection to the sacred intelligence within.