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
This project explores how a single source of material can evolve and transform through the use of generative algorithms over several hours. The aim was to reveal how one musical situation can gradually shift into another, forming an ever-changing sonic landscape.
For the performance, 12 composers each created a short ‘miniature’ for solo instrument or voice, written for 12 musicians. These pieces became the foundation for a process of continuous transformation: computer algorithms morphed and reshaped the material, while the musicians adapted and reinterpreted each other’s contributions, allowing the music to unfold like a living organism in constant flux.


Algorithmically driven
The 12 new compositions were pre-recorded in both audio-visual form and with motion capture, capturing not only the sound but also the physical gestures of the performers. This data became the foundation for a dynamic ‘forest’ of mutable visual forms and sounds that surrounded the live musicians. At different moments in the performance, these musicians re-entered the work—sometimes performing the pieces in full, other times presenting altered or fragmented versions across multiple stages in the space.
The compositions were carefully analyzed and enriched with detailed metadata, which served as the basis for the algorithms driving the piece. These algorithms continually sorted, recombined, and transformed the recorded material, generating countless variations and immersing the audience in an ever-shifting audiovisual environment.


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