SUCCESSOR STATES
ZAC CORRIE / SAM GILLIES / STUART JAMES / STEVE PARASKOS / KYNAN TAN
In association with Tura New Music
One show only: 31 October, 7.30pm-9.30pm (5x20mins sets with interval)
$15 pre-sales / $18 door
http://www.psas.com.au/pages/now_and_future/successor_states/
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Premiere of new work
graph sketch of DNA data
2014
32ch sound
This work uses DNA data analysed from a complex ecosystem as the control information for the reproduction of sound. The DNA data is formatted in long strings of nucleobases identified by G, A, T or C. Self-built software interprets the range of serial combinations of nucleobases and maps these to a range of sound control parameters (sample read position, filter frequency, spatialisation, amplitude envelope, duration, delay between events).
The work investigates the complexity and noisiness of data and signal in the biological world, and how this can be combined with personal and sonic histories in making creative decisions towards aesthetic outcomes.