Memory Drift

The album was not composed as a soundtrack for eleven individual aluminium works. While Memory Drift was taking shape, Bai continued making different sounds with a modular synthesizer and preserving fragments of those recordings. Travel photographs, symbols, and other visual material were accumulating in parallel.

When the first complete installation took on a provisional structure in 2024, Bai selected eleven items from the visual archive for aluminium works and, deliberately, eleven sections from the sound archive for release. The numerical correspondence is intentional, but there is no prescribed one-to-one relationship; the two sets operate more like parallel image and sound archives.

In the exhibition, visitors listened through headphones or QR codes and could form their own relationships between a sound and an image, or decline such pairing altogether. The independent release preserves the autonomy of the sound archive, allowing fragments left from the working process to continue being heard apart from any single aluminium panel.