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Dromos/Autos

  • AV Performance
  • Generative
  • Experimental Electronics
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Dromos/Autos
***DISCLAIMER: This performance will feature intensive stroboscopic imagery/flickering from the onset, and may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Audience discretion towards attending this performance is advised.***

The artist's aim for their research/performance explores how EEG (Electroencephalography) and biofeedback facilitated sensory overload can lead to new performance paradigms, mediated through a particularly idiomatic yet revealing interface for musical expression: the autistic cognition. The research takes an interdisciplinary approach, adopting facets of generative electronic music, psychoacoustics, audio-reactive visuals and performance art. The main body of work for the research encompasses the design of 'provocative’ sounds, i.e. sounds tailored to induce sensory overload specific to the artist's autistic ontology. These sounds are curated towards parameters established via a reflexive autoethnographic research methodology. The artist has then deliberated potential arrangements for the sounds, which then influences the nature of their generative programming in tandem with gathered EEG data to produce an open 'biofeedback' loop; a dynamic sonic and performance ecology in which the artist/performer is subject to.

The artist's performance utilises commercially available EEG and BCI (brain-computer interface) technology to engender the audio-visual performance ecology, in which the parameters of subsequent audio-visual events are determined and modulated by the preceding audio-visual stimuli via biofeedback. The aforementioned events are tailored to stimulate the performers autistic cognition, insofar as 'provoking' it into a cognitive sensory overload. The audio-visual aesthetics (informed by noise, electroacoustic and fluxus ‘danger’ music) compounded with the transgressive performance method (informed by endurance art) is intended to elicit a provocation, reflection, reevaluation and re-contextualisation of the augmentative capabilities of ASD's, in addition to prompt insight into the autistic ontology.

Duration (minutes)

30

What is needed

Technology Provided:
1x Laptop
1x Audio interface
1x OpenBCI Ultracortex Mk.IV EEG headset w/ bluetooth connection to laptop
1x HDMI output from laptop to projector
2x EMF Detection circuits ('Sniffers'), 1/4" connection

Technology Requested:
1x Projector
1x Stereo 1/4" jack output to PA

What the artists brings

Max/MSP/Jitter
OpenBCI EEG Headset + proprietary BCI (Brain Control Interface)

  • AV Performance
  • Generative
  • Experimental Electronics

Authors

Matt Rogerson
Matt Rogerson

United Kingdom Leicester

Events

LPM 2022 Rome
LPM 2022 Rome
Friday, 10 June 2022

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