The Sound of Gin Tonic is a generative work that involves the audience in the production. It abstracts a seemingly banal issue (drinking Gin Tonic) sonically and ties to practically explore what kind of knowledge can be gathered by sound.

When selling Gin Tonic at a bar the barkeepers ask the customers the rather abstract question: “What is the sound of Gin Tonic?” The answers are spoken into a microphone at the bar and then fed into an archive of existing sound snippets about Gin and Tonic. Programmed with Pure Data sounds from the archive are then mixed and meshed and played through a small sculpture next to the bar. The result is a sound net of voices, speech, imitations of sounds and noises, such as the sound of ice cubes in a glass or the tingling of tonic water. I try to understand the resulting piece as a keynote sound, the sound basis of Gin Tonic.