In Sonic Shift, visitors, a self-learning system and robotic instruments enter into an interactive exchange. Cameras and sensors register movement and presence in the space. The system processes this information and continuously reshapes the instruments’ musical patterns.
As a cybernetic system, Sonic Shift responds directly to its visitors. Their movements feed into an ongoing process from which generative music emerges. It develops through the interaction between human presence, the system’s responses and the robotic instruments.
The installation explores co-creation as an interplay between different forms of agency. Where does authorship reside in this relationship? And how does our understanding of creativity change when music is not entirely predetermined, but unfolds through an exchange between people and technological systems?
On Saturday, 19 December, at 8 pm, artist Tobias Euler will perform live with the instrumentarium in a special concert, presenting new compositions for the automated musical system.
