“Hooked on a Feeling” (2025) is an experiment in non-linear composition, unfolding over five hours as a durational live sound performance. Guided by his research on acoustics, resonance and the physical properties of sound, Tobias Koch explores the phenomenon of the Doppler Effect: the way sound bends through movement.

By extending the rotating mechanism of a Leslie speaker into the depository of works maintained by Barriera’s art collectors, we get to experience a shift in frequency as sound moves closer or further away from us. It is motion-made music, a warping of sound. A special food intervention by Alice Guarini complements the performance, inviting the audience into a multi-sensory experience and a meditation on (a)liveness.

Photography by Biagio Palmieri