Sound artist, sculptor and performer Rudi Punzo is interested in metamorphosis and its symbiotic relationship with artistic transformation. Punzo’s work mainly consists of creating site-specific music sculptures out of discarded materials.

Sound of Light, is a site-specific installation of photovoltaic insects that interacts with the presence of passers-by. A micro-zoo of frenzy and frantic electronic ‘roaches’ and ‘cicadas’ it reminds us of our dependence on energy sources and the impact of our behaviour on environment.

Aurora Borealis, Italian artist Rudi Punzo’s creation for Auditions Sound Residency at Khoj, in the words of the artist, represents: “A performance, an interactive experience and the description of how deeply it may impact the discovering of such a place as New (and Old ) Delhi on the creativity of an artist obsessed by sound and noise”.

At given times the artist will play a big musical installation– Sound of Matter –intermingling mechanical rhythm of a bicycle with the voices of robot insects, thus freeing the potential of these sounds produced as semi-automatic orchestra.

Rudi normally uses old, broken and recycled bicycles: cutting them to pieces, re-purposing the parts, and welding them together to make his sound sculptures. They are easy enough to find in the Western countries where he normally works, where old objects are more often thrown away rather than fixed. It is generally cheaper to purchase new than to repair.

For Rudi bicycles are not only convenient objects to rip apart and re-purpose, they represent a basic human need for mobility and exploration, they create no pollution, they are good for health and for the environment. They are a basic, simple beautifully designed machine and can be used to generate all sorts of sound