The piece captures the gesture of the percussionist to drive the electronics. A first version was created by percussionist Thierry Miroglio in Shizuoka (Japan) in 2016. The final version has been commissioned by the Biennale de Venise in 2017. The electronics has been rewritten in 2020 to use SuperCollider and this work is part of my PhD.

The programming of the piece is structured using “actors” (parallel objects) that represent inputs from the environment (accelerometers, onset detection and spectral analysis of the percussion) and output sound sources (generative process, synthesis, spatialization’s data, etc.). Each sound sources “listen” to some “gestures” (kicks, sliding hands, etc.) that are detected in the accelerometers inputs.

The synthesis relies on a SuperCollider server which is driven by the antescofo program. The interaction between the two is completely applicative from the antescofo point of view (the actors attack an API which hide all the technical details of the asynchronous communications via OSC with the SuperCollider server).