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synapse_circuit

November 25, 2015

for percussion and live computer processing

Composer: Adam

Year of Composition: 2012
Instrumentation: Percussion, found objects
Type of Electronics: Live

Number of Channels: 2
Duration: 8:12
Video Component: None

Score Resources

What is the voice inside the machine? While computers perform tasks that extend the abilities of our own minds, they increasingly act as independent entities. Synapse_circuit serves not as a direct analogy between these two ideas, but rather as a symbol of human-machine interaction. The computer augments the percussionist’s performance, and improvises sounds based on his or her playing using algorithmic processes in Pure Data. The percussion performance consists of glasses, bottles, and a bowl, which the performer hits, scrapes, blows and sings into. All sounds produced by the computer are derived from the real time performance. Both human and machine performers work from a score, but listen and respond to the performance of the other. Synapses and circuits – human and computer – together find the music inside the machine. This work honors the complexity both of the human mind and its digital counterpart, taking us from wonder, to discovery, to celebration.

Score and Pd patch available at www.vidiksis.com.

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