Mutability
Role
Visual Artists / Software Developer
In collaboration with
Yannis Kyriakides
Commissioner
Holland Festival
Concert installation
A large scale collaborative work, as a 6 hour concert installation
The idea of the project was to explore how from a given source material, a combination of various generative algorithms can evolve and mutate the work over several hours. It explores the capacity to transform from one musical situation into another, creating an ever-changing sonic landscape. 12 Composers were asked to create a ‘miniature’ for solo instrument or voice for 12 musicians, which was presented and used as material that morphs and mutates into other forms throughout the performance, both through computer algorithms and also through the musicians adapting and transforming each other’s material.
Algorithmically driven
The 12 new compositions were pre-recorded, both audio-visually and with motion capture, to track the movements of the performers. This data was used to create a ‘forest’ of mutable visual forms and sounds that enveloped the live musicians, who at certain times during the performance, perform the pieces, whole or mutated on various stages in the space. Analysis of the compositions and meticulous tagging with metadata was the basis of creating the algorithms that sort and recombine that recorded data in many numbers of ways.
Concept, artistic direction, composition, sound design— Yannis Kyriakides
Audio-visual art, creative coding— Darien Brito
Scenography— Theun Mosk, Cas Dekker
Creative technology — Niels Weber
Production— Asko|Schönberg
Coproduction — Holland Festival, Innovation:Lab