EVA PETRIČ FEAT. HAYATO NAKAO

Lullaby E@motion Triptych is a three-part sound composition combining non-linear music with a linear vocal narrative that transforms the archetype of the lullaby into a contemporary meditation on humanity’s emotional evolution. Each part represents a stage in this emotional metamorphosis:
Earthling’s Lullaby — the origin: a blueprint of what it means to be human, still breathing with the planet, attuned to our shared pulse.
Cryonic Lullaby — the transition: a cooling of our emotional world, as technology begins to eclipse feeling; the moment when warmth gives way to control.
Vitrified Lullaby — the aftermath: the emotional fossil of humankind, a beautiful yet fragile echo of what once felt alive.
Rooted in the timeless ritual of lullabies — melodic simplicity, rhythm, and repetition — the work asks: “How long will we still have them? Will there be a last lullaby?”We exist within a fraction of infinity, yet we are like butterflies fluttering for a day while believing it is forever.

By intertwining scientific facts, the human voice, and electronic sound, Lullaby E@motion Triptych becomes a spatial poem about the fragility of presence, the rhythm of breathing with the planet, and the hope that lullabies will endure for as long as emotions exist. Three distinct sonic layers overlap to form a triptych; its combinations never repeat. In contrast, the vocal persists as a singular, linear narrative layer, unfolding with a beginning and an end. Presented in the TONSPUR_passage in Vienna, the work transforms the transitional space into an incubator of emotions.

Jim Morrison wrote: “As long as there are people, there will be poetry.” I would take this a step further and ask: “As long as there are emotions, will there also be lullabies?” Standing at a turning point, we find ourselves changing alongside the planet — our emotions evolving in parallel with the technologies we create. We exist suspended between memory and algorithm, between heartbeat and code. And yet, as long as a voice still hums softly into the night, the lullaby, our oldest gesture of care, will remain.

Eva Petrič


Eva Petrič, geboren 1983 in Kranj in Slowenien, lebt und arbeitet in Wien, New York City und Ljubljana, Slowenien.

TONSPUR I
EVA PETRIČ FEAT. HAYATO NAKAO
LULLABY E@MOTION TRIPTYCH
CURATED BY THOMAS MIESSGANG
TONSPUR FÜR EINEN ÖFFENTLICHEN RAUM 2026

8-channel soundwork, 7-part series of A1 images • duration 19’42” • concept, lyrics, voice, A1 images Eva Petrič • sound material Hayato Nakao • curator Thomas Mießgang • sound mixing, installation set up Peter Szely • production TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien • artistic director Georg Weckwerth • Special thanks go to scientists and astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Ron Garan, Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Special thanks go to scientists and astronautsose words are featured in the text collage of Part 1, “Earthlings’ Lullaby,” of this three-part soundwork.

Opening • Sun FEB 22, 5 p.m.

TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound
FEB 23 –APR 25 2026
daily 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.