Swarm
Multi-speaker Installation/Performance (with Coen Konings)
swarm is a multispeaker performance installation about our impact as humans on nature. Our central theme is noise pollution. We create audible security and disrupt it with indications of human activity. With this, we critique our habit of shaping nature to our needs, while we ourselves would benefit more from letting nature take its course. The performance consisted of a natural soundscape and a swarm of machine sounds, these two interact. Where the machines pass through, nature gives way. As the swarm grows larger, nature distorts and transforms until its eventually engulfed by the swarm.
swarm was live performed at contact Amsterdam on 8 krk speakers in a circle and 12 omnidrive speakers as satellites. The piece was build with Max MSP and 4DSound.
Here is a link to performance piece (stereo).