Marcos Micozzi y Hef Prentice

Marcos Micozzi and Hef Prentice are Argentine artists whose collaborative practice brings together sound, sculpture, digital design, and immersive technologies to explore new ways of perceiving memory, space, and time. Their work transforms ephemeral phenomena into material and visual experiences through audio, virtual reality, digital modeling, animation, and 3D printing.

XYZ Sound Sculptures proposes an innovative language for collecting, reinterpreting, and transforming sound. It is a protolinguistic system that converts sound into form, time into matter, and trajectory into tangible structure.

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This project is a convergence of multiple disciplines: acoustics, wave physics, motion analysis, sound engineering, generative design, digital sculpture, cognitive neuroscience, and 3D printing. Here, sound gives rise to form—a radical inversion of the traditional paradigm in which form generates sound. It is a three-dimensional glyphography that proposes a new way of thinking about communication and perception, challenging conventional ways of experiencing sound. An embryonic, nonverbal alphabet that might one day be read by future intelligences.

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XYZ Sound Sculptures also proposes an unprecedented archival system. Just as the musical staff encoded sound in pitch and duration but discarded its spatial dimension, XYZ captures precisely what the staff ignores: the trajectory of sound in space—how it inhabited the air, how it moved. Each sculpture is a three-dimensional document of a sonic event, a record of information that until now had no way of being preserved.

"XYZ Sound Sculptures"

2026