Translating Voice into a Vertical System of Light and Sound Axis Mundi: Resonant Spire is a 12-meter interactive tower developed by Sergei Konchekov for the 2026 Burning Man Honoraria program. The project translates human voice into a vertical system of light and sound , addressing conditions of digital communication in which expression is constant but rarely converges into shared meaning. Developed within ongoing research at Columbia GSAPP, the structure responds to the fragmentation of contemporary signal environments. In urban and digital contexts, vocal input is often filtered, normalized, and distributed without synthesis. Axis Mundi: Resonant Spire reconfigures this condition into a spatial framework. Located on the Black Rock Desert playa in Nevada , the tower receives voice, noise, and presence data through a distributed network of microphones and sensors. These inputs are processed in real time and mapped to approximately 300 circular modules arranged vertically along the structure.…