spectral sound system

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SPECTRAL SOUND SYSTEM – PROJECT DESCRIPTION

‘Spectral Sound System’ is a live, semi-improvised audio-visual performance that is intended as a response to a specific location’s audio-visual topography. It employs a research-based approach with recordings made in situ and live coding to investigate a site’s nodes of affect and the embodied responses these might generate upon the individuals who occupy its distinct time-space. A particular focus of this project is the interstitial area in which mediated tropes of emotion (generated via advertising and popular media) overlap and integrate themselves with the ephemeral mindsets of its individual inhabitants. Field recordings, spectral processing, data visualization and algorithmically-generated visuals are cross-processed and combined in a real-time, intuitive manner, redeploying the collected data in an intermedial response to the performance location’s socio-political terrain.