The Architecture of Sound is an installation exploring sound as an act of critical refusal and ritual resistance. The project uses a chladni-inspired visualisation in which salt reacts to the sound frequencies of kukeri bells. The patterns created by the experiment are transformed into a kukeri mask, highlighting how sound reflects on Bulgarian culture.

The project draws from the Bulgarian kukeri ritual, a tradition that interweaves pagan cosmologies, Christian symbolism, and acts of social critique. Kukeri appear in elaborate masks combining animal and human features, and wear heavy costumes weighted with bronze bells. Their sound—dense, dissonant, and deeply physical—functions not only to dispel harmful forces but also as an act of collective transformation. Through noise and chaos, disturbed harmony is restored.

Today, kukeri practices persist as acts of cultural memory and critical refusal in the face of globalisation and the homogenisation of identity. It remains alive because it not only presents tradition but continually rethinks the boundaries between sacred and profane, between sound and form, between the human and the animal.