Isomorphs and Plastics filters smartphone noise, trap sample packs and modular squelch through twenty-first century indeterminacy and digital pseudo-sensuality.
Inspired in equal parts by John Cage’s chance operations, random MIDI structures, San Fransisco Tape Music Center experiments and Lex Luger’s revolutionary production circa 2010, this suite of live electronic music reckons with the impossible density of contemporary media by arbitrarily dividing it into two compositions.
Taking cadences from its source material as a starting point, found sounds are orchestrated with a variety of media signifiers (arena-rock guitar, auto-tune sludge, sci-fi synths), and re-presented in both raw and mediated states.
Performance of this work will be accompanied by projections from Plastics.app, a virtual environment created in Unity exploring these concepts in visual parallel.