Lost in Translation, inspired by Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room, uses a multi-layered loop buffer fed into a vocoder, with each subsequent layer vocoding the one before it. Each loop plays for a time, the layers building before gradually degrading in quality and volume until only silence and resonance remain. This sonic decay is mirrored visually by noise particle systems that expand in response to sound and contract in its absence. We extend this abstraction by speaking to each other in our native languages—Cantonese and Korean—playing with homophones. In the process, we lose not only audio quality but also meaning itself through mistranslation.