Li Tavor and Nicolas Buzzi are interested in music, sound and architecture. Their project Talking Measures or How to Lose Track, developed especially for the exhibition spaces of the Istituto Svizzero in Milan, is nourished by this interest and makes the connections between sound, architecture and the body moving within it experienceable for the visitors.

The setting, conceived through an interdisciplinary approach by developing an alchemy of sounds, installations and sound creations, is a music installation in search of today’s significance of the multiplicity of possible ways to relate. The work deals with the relationship between space and body and the fluid boundaries of perception in relation to universally defined metric systems. While we often find ourselves in situations where relations become tangible and real through standardized measurements and their societal meaning, the installation tries to encourage other, less efficient or sturdy lines of orientation. Treating music, sound and sound waves as