Showcasing outputs of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics INHABIT residency program, “CONTACT ZONES” opens at Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst. Pamela Breda, Victoria Keddie, and Sajan Mani present works informed by four months of dialogue with institute researchers. Keddie’s Pshal P’shaw (2024, image), for example, deconstructs eight American English diphthongs via multi-channel audio, exposing the “primal essence of phonetic expression and its impact on the oral landscape.”