2022 - Structerm Array

Live electronic cybernetic piece for modular synthesizer and immersive loudspeaker system

During the last three years I’ve been developing a way of performing with a Serge modular system in a live electronic setting, inside a immersive multichannel ambisonic sound system. The sound of the analog modular synth is encoded in the computer with a special algorithm so the spatial placement of the sound is directly connected to the analog synthesis of the sound. The audience is placed inside the synthesizer synthesis as it is performed. This is my first piece researching this spatial algoritm. It is also containing a fixed media part composed from the same type of modular synth recordings. The synthesizer patch is in itself a cybernetic system that connects to the encoding in the computer, also a cybernetic system, and together with the performer a third global cybernetic system arises.

Specification

Durata: 9 min 9 sec
Year: 2022

Tech rider

Minimum 4.0 loudspeaker immersive setup. Up to 7th Order Ambisonic with full 3D sphere setup
Need access from my laptop (Macbook Pro M2 (2023)) to multichannel audio interface via USB-C or Dante network.
Needs full range loudspeaker system, included immense use of very low and very high frequencies.

Performances

2022-Dec - First performance at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Sandvika, Norway
2022-Dec - Performance at Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden