wastelands

Taking loose inspiration from Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic epic ‘The Stand’, the work sets the ensemble into a synthetic and erratic environment of sound and light, depicting the struggle of the performers to ‘sing’ through their instruments and find new ways of expression to transgress their desolate surroundings.

Bringing together human and artificial, synthetic and organic, the work presents a combination of live instrumental performance, electronics, light design and AI-generated sonic content (from the neural network PRiSM SampleRNN) as an exploration of newfound ways of expression amidst an imagined posthuman landscape.

Work commissioned by Ex-Sentia Ensemble, with generous support from the Fondation Nicati-de Luze.