Distributed Listening
Live Performance
Distributed Listening is a performance that questions
the notion of listening as a centralized activity and instead explores how it can be distributed across digital and
electroacustic musical instruments. This is achieved by sharing data in the form of audio signals and descriptors
between the instruments employed in the performance, creating a web of interconnections that the performers play
and explore together.
A specific focus is given to how such interconnections shape the agency and the sound capabilities of each instrument,
continuously redefining its role and functionality in relation to the whole, and fostering adaptive behaviors in response
to the changes in the data it receives. The performance highlights the distinctive performative idiom that emerges
among the performers through this approach, developing a narrative around the fluid sonic presence of each element
on stage and the ability of each action to influence the overall behavior of the system.
Credits
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