Inner Echoes

This sonic meditation piece explores the layers of the self on how sound, technology, and intention mirror one another to reveal the inner echo beneath the noise.

Year: 2025

Role: Artist

Type of Project: Sonic Meditation / Live Performance

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Charlotte Ke performed Inner Echoes as a live sonic meditation session at Inner Tone, Los Altos.

A Dialogue Between Multilayered Selves

In every moment, we exist in many versions of ourselves: the grounded self, the observing self, the digital self, the expressive self. Inner Echoes brings these versions into conversation through sound.

The piece begins with Tibetan singing bowls. The first self introduced a steady grounding energy through consistent vibration. Then, another “self” enters, guiding the audience into breath and awareness. Soon, a third self reappears through technology, taking a live recording of the bowl and transforming it into a granular synth: stretching time, expanding harmonics, and reshaping resonance into a luminous digital pad. Finally, a fourth self emerges through voice, weaving over the layered textures.

Each version of myself listens to the previous one. Each responds. Together, they form a dialogue between presence and memory, body and signal, self and echo.

Be Like Water

In many contemplative traditions, the self is not singular but fluid, shifting like sound. I created Inner Echoes as an exploration of that fluidity.

The singing bowl represents the physical body.The guided meditation represents awareness.The granular synth represents transformation.The singing voice represents emotional truth.

When these layers meet, they reveal the inner tone beneath our daily thoughts and the part of us that is steady, resonant, and whole.

Technology as a Bridge Between Selves

Real-time sampling and granular synthesis were essential to this project. The Tibetan bowl was recorded live, then deconstructed into signals and reconstructed into a shimmering ambient texture. This digital extension of the bowl mirrors how our emotions evolve: familiar, yet transformed.