»Architerrorist« Mark Bain makes spaces resonate with oscillations tuned to their physical limits. Rooted in a family background of architecture, Bain’s work has earned labels like »anti-architect« as he extends Gordon Matta-Clark’s radical deconstructions into the aural realm. Using seismographic sensors and custom-built devices, Bain amplifies the otherwise imperceptible vibrations of buildings, bridges, and the ground itself, sonically destabilising the sites his works inhabit to reveal their fragile, vibrating cores. By setting materials and environments into motion, he charts their hidden waveforms, exposing the signatures of places usually assumed to be static.

These experiments extend into live works to engage audiences not as passive listeners but as resonant bodies within the same field of vibration, enfolded into the mechanics of place and sound. His long-running project The Archisonic probes the micro-vibrations of architecture using custom seismographic sensors to audify structures like historic pavilions, bridges and concrete shells. Among others, he’s vibrated the V2 building, the Het Paard club in Amsterdam, and Berghain in Berlin, and has received commissions to shake and quake bridges, laboratories, and freight containers internationally. Bain also works through Simulux, his center for audio-visual practice, to push sound beyond hearing and into the physical and invisible thresholds.