Looking Outwards 10

Jae Son
Section C

Looking Outwards 10: Computer Music

For this LO-10, I looked at Laetitia Sonami’s Magnetic Memories. She created this new instrument “Spring Spyre,” with Rebecca Fiebrink’s neural networks. According to the Stanford University’s CCRMA stage brochure, in which she performed, “the audio signals from three pickups attached to springs are fed to the neural networks, which are trained to control the live audio synthesis in MAXMSP.” So, with the performer’s real-time performance, somewhat chaotic set of sound is produced. I admire how a random, real-time physical performance produces sound that sounds chaotic but is within the programmed pattern. I like the intersection of installation, performance art, and computer art come together.