Resonant Forge is a live simulation and performative system that reveals the inaudible tectonics of our contemporary condition. Constructed as an endlessly shifting metallic landscape populated by animated debris, ores, screws, chains, and jewel-like industrial remnants, it sonifies the invisible forces shaping both planetary geology and extractive capitalism. Within this synthetic ecology, microparticles, magnets, and improbable constructs respond to hidden fields, gravity wells, magnetic pulses, and entropic tremors, colliding and spiraling into a granular, machinic music of the Anthropocene.

Conceived as a musical instrument that improvises its own collapse, Resonant Forge traces a speculative line from the seismic pressures of deep time to the polished surfaces of contemporary machine-learning hardware. Its procedural systems echo the logics of mining, sorting, and labor extraction, transforming abstract geopolitical and ecological forces into tangible simulation and reactive sound. As the simulation unfolds, a gray moth drifts silently among the debris, its fragile trajectory marking the impossible choreography of survival within a collapsing system.

Resonant Forge continues a trajectory evident in Theo Triantafyllidis’ recent work, such as BugSim, where closed systems become sites for staged resilience and speculative ecology. While BugSim depicted a delicate terrarium of ants, bees, and engineered microfauna in cycles of growth and collapse, Resonant Forge presents a post-natural landscape in which metal retains memory of both its geological origins and industrial destiny. Together, these works compose an evolving cosmology of artificial life and ecological contradiction, framed by the paradoxes of care, collapse, and control.