Five Studies for Chaotic Oscillators
Multichannel Audiovisual Performance
As part of the exhibition “The Changing Room” August 1st-3rd at ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin
2019
Five Studies for Chaotic Oscillators is a series of audiovisual studies for an audio system of four or more channels and visual projection. The open and improvisatory nature of the studies avoid the definition of a “composition,” and should rather be considered as digital instrument. The main idea is to explore sonorities that have an unpredictable outcome based on chaotic systems and create a performance in which the performer reacts intuitively and in real time to the volatile sonic results.
Chaotic systems are the perfect mean for this since they:
“behave unpredictably despite their seeming simplicity and the fact that
the forces involved are governed by well-understood physical laws. The common element in these systems is a very high degree of
sensitivity to initial conditions and to the way in which they are set in
motion.”[1]
Therefore,
a very small variation in initial parameters in real time, causes
unpredictable audio-visual outcome to which the performer needs to react in
order to create a coherent and interesting performance.
[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/chaos-theory
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