Yuval Gur

MFA Digital + Media

Music as an Environment

Music as Environment started with a question I keep chasing: what happens when music becomes a place? I am a composer and installation artist, and I build worlds you can walk into. My work brings together field recordings from oceans, glaciers, and volcanic landscapes with spatial audio, vibration, light, and physical materials like paper, water, bioplastics, and graphite. These elements become environments that behave less like concerts and more like weather. Speakers become walls. Sculptures become instruments. The room itself becomes part of the score. Instead of asking for stillness, I invite wandering. Every visitor hears something different depending on where they stand, how they move, and what they carry in with them. My thesis treats music not as a fixed object with a beginning and end, but as a place unfolding around us: tactile, unstable, resonant, alive.