Nicola L. Hein - Twisted Circuits | Rhythm Traces - Live @ ZKM / Kubus (Binaural Mix)

Nicola L. Hein - Twisted Circuits | Rhythm Traces -
Live @ ZKM Karlsruhe / Kubus
28.09.2024
(Binaural Mix)
Twisted Circuits | Rhythm Traces
Nicola L. Hein - Buchla Music Easel
Musical Agent System
The piece Twisted Circuits | Rhythm Traces deals with the question of how the integration of the body and skin resistance into the circuit of an analog synthesizer (Buchla Music Easel) and the connection with a machine learning-based musical agent and live electronics (Max/MSP) can change the tonal and rhythmic fluidity of the instrument and develop it beyond its limits.
For this piece, Hein uses a unique circuit bending controller that completely changes the musical reading of the Buchla Music Easel of the 1970s. 1970s, as it allows all of the synthesizer's parameters to be controlled via the skin resistance. It is therefore about the trace of the body in the analog synthesizer and the question of how the integration of the body can develop new musical potentials. Through the use of live electronics, a complex form of playing is created, which has its very own and in the use of different Stutter-Delay- / Sampling- / Live-Spatialization-Concepts.
In addition, Hein uses an AI-based virtual musical agent programmed by him for this piece, which is trained live to play the synthesizer and interacts musically, thus creating the music in real time together with Hein on the synthesizer and developing the interaction of a human and machine musical voice. The systemic economy of movement and the interaction with the AI musical agent create polyphonic rhythmic, tonal and spatial structures. The piece focuses on the emergent Dances of Agency (Andrew Pickering), aims at the development of a dynamic human-machine system
in which Hein merges with the latter.