Musical composition / installation

Program note:

Work for the ensemble Broken Frames Syndicate, a blower for bouncy castle and garden hoses.

The Frozen Wind by Greg Beller, written for the ensemble Broken Frames Syndicate, a bouncy castle blower, and garden hoses, explores the possibility of harmony within a world saturated by noise. Using everyday objects diverted from their original function, the work creates an unstable sonic landscape shaped by airflows, turbulence, fragile resonances, and unpredictable vibrations.

The blower functions here as an entropic machine: a continuous source of energy and raw noise that the performers attempt to channel, filter, and organize. The hoses become conduits of transformation, through which acoustic chaos gradually turns into rhythmic, spectral, and harmonic phenomena. Rather than suppressing noise, the piece inhabits it, searching within it for temporary forms of balance and coherence.

This sonic exploration resonates with a broader social and political question: how can collective harmony emerge in an environment marked by saturation, fragmentation, and instability? The Frozen Wind stages a form of entropic regulation, both in sound and in social interaction. The performers continuously negotiate with a material that partly escapes their control, collectively developing strategies of listening, adaptation, and synchronization.

Situated somewhere between sound installation, performance, and instrumental composition, the work transforms mechanical airflow into a metaphor for a turbulent contemporary world — one in which harmony no longer appears as a fixed order, but as a fragile, shifting construction that must constantly be reinvented.