Inner Forms

Audiovisual performance (pictorial)

Abstract

Inner Forms is a live audiovisual performance in which the computer is the only instrument, fully assumed rather than hidden. No synthesizer, no controller, no cable and no visible computer are on stage: the performer sits at a small desk with a wireless keyboard and mouse, and the audience sits behind, facing the same projected screen. That screen carries a software instrument built entirely in MaxMSP, with JavaScript extending its interface, mixing generative visuals, sounds and fifteen years of previously unreleased personal video archive. This pictorial documents the performance and the reasoning behind removing all visible gear from the stage.