The Qur'an: Synesthetic Installation

This project presents the Qur'an as a formal field of correspondences between letter, number, color, sound, and participation. Using the classical Arabic alphabet in its traditional order, each letter is assigned a numerical value and reduced through digital-root operations to generate a structured reading of the text. Rather than claiming an occult code, the work proposes an artistic and analytical translation of sacred language into a system of recurrence, rhythm, and visual-sonic resonance. In parallel, the project develops an original chromatic map based on colors explicitly evoked in the Qur'an, including white, black, green, red, yellow, and blue. These colors are treated as symbolic thresholds through which the sacred text is reimagined as a space of visual and auditory reflection. The work also engages with the modal and microtonal imagination of classical Arabic music, where sound is organized not by the fixed grid of twelve semitones characteristic of modern Western tuning, but through flexible modal structures and subtle intervallic relations. The installation is conceived as a 24-hour non-repeatable event in which the audience becomes an active coauthor of the work. The Qur'anic text flows on a central screen, is fragmented into granular units, and is transformed into sound, vibration, and color through a responsive environment. Within this framework, the triadic structure 3--6--9 is proposed as a formal rhythm of emergence, development, and completion. Rather than functioning as a mystical claim, it is used as a compositional device that organizes repetition, transformation, and closure across the project.