Electric Animal / Cyber Forest
2022

Electric Animal is a fictional story about an encounter with an unknown being. It follows the narrator in an exploration of the animals habitat and the emergence of an inter-species relationship. The story serves as a vehicle for the exploration of non-human modes of sensory perception, primarily auditory and visual.

On the occasion of the second edition of the eponymous book, I developed an installation and a performance with author and video-artist Desiree Kabis. The latter was performed at the closing of the exhibition at the Gallery Laube on 04.02.2022.

In creating the piece I focused on the connection and transposition of narrative elements into a compositional, auditory, and performative structure. Using light-controlled data streams to control fm-synthesis algorithms based on the mathematical modelling of tree growth phenomena, as well as through extensive processing of a wide range of sample material, a window opens into the psycho-acoustic world of the electric animal, following its diurnal cycle as a loop of four movements (day/dusk/night/dawn). My work on the piece was mentored by Okkyung Lee.

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Installation

3 channel video
2.1 channel audio, 18’39’’ (loop)

Story, print design, projections, voice, video, photos: Desiree Kabis

Sound composition & performance, coding, additional video editing: Daniel L. Lythgoe

Robot: Nele Faust

Additional Camerawork: Lehel Lajos