FORT THUNDER

Fort Thunder is a touch-play synthesiser that generates electronic noise as you play. The bleeps and blurts emitted as your touch intersects the fort’s twenty-two stainless-steel poles result from replacing circuit components with human bodies. People are naturally electric, with capacitance and resistance that vary between individuals, so every interaction introduces different values into the circuit and produces different audio. The fort is best played in groups: the more paths created for electricity to flow between poles, the more complex the sound becomes.