At ROOTS Exhibition Milano, Mathijs Koerts presents ‘Anatomy of Sound’. A body of work that reveals the hidden essence of technology through material exploration and intuitive making. A 2025 Cum Laude graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven (first encountered during the Graduation Show at Dutch Design Week) Koerts belongs to a new generation of designers who reconnect innovation with tactility, process and curiosity.

These sculptures strip the loudspeaker down to its fundamental elements: paper membrane, copper voice-coil, magnets and metal frame. What is usually concealed inside sleek, closed casings is here opened up, exposed and reimagined. The speakers, resembling delicate flowers, are hand crafted from recycled paper using a self-developed moulding technique. Each paper cone is tuned to a specific frequency, forming a system where sound is no longer projected from a single point, but instead floats freely through space.

In this work, technology becomes organic, almost alive. The speaker is no longer a black box, but a breathing structure—rooted in material, process, and transparency. By revealing how sound is physically shaped, Koerts invites us to reconsider our relationship with the objects that surround us: to take them apart, to understand them and to rebuild them with intention.

Anatomy of sound resonates deeply with the ROOTS narrative. They speak of origin and process, of returning to the core and of rediscovering the intelligence embedded in materials. In Koerts’ hands, making becomes a form of thinking, an act of curiosity that brings us back to the roots of creation itself.

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