Lanzerote: Echoes in a Lost Chronotope is a generative audiovisual installation that interrogates the temporal and geological entanglements of landscape, perception, and agency.

Comprising still photographic documentation and a generative modular synthesizer patch, the work positions the viewer as both observer and agent, tuning into an eruptive, unseen underworld through sound. The viewer's interaction with the system activates a subterranean sonic environment—a speculative resonance of volcanic becoming.

The work stages a collapse of linear time, where tectonic, planetary, and existential scales converge. The volcanic terrain of Lanzarote is rendered as an ontological paradox—both ancient and always emerging, suspended between stasis and transformation.

Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope—the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships in literature—Lanzerote materializes a nonhuman temporality, where landscape becomes an active generative subject. It also echoes Timothy Morton's conception of 'hyperobjects': entities so vast in spatiotemporal scale they defy human comprehension.

The viewer is inserted into this planetary rhythm not as a passive spectator but as a vibrating particle within the land's internal circuitry. The modular synthesizer is not merely an instrument but a procedural metaphor for geological activity—twisting, curling, bubbling—unfolding in feedback loops beyond human time.

The sonic palette, emerging from the self-generating synthesis, resists narrative, instead proposing a form of acoustic deep time. Here, modular synthesis recalls early cybernetic art practices and the generative poetics of artists like Brian Eno or Ryoji Ikeda, who explored systems that evolve independently of linear authorship.

In refusing a fixed perspective, Lanzerote undermines anthropocentric claims to time, scale, and meaning. It invites speculation: What does it mean to be a settler, a witness, a speck of dust on a land still becoming?

Lanzerote invites viewers to tune into the inaudible vibrations of geological life—an invitation to feel, however briefly, like an extension of the land's memory, or its forgetting.