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Swarm & Murmuration

Swarm & MurmurationSwarm & Murmuration

Smartphones merge the orientation of the artist and the audience

02 Sep. 2013
RMIT Design Hub
Curated by LA.

Smartphones merge the orientation of the artist and the audience

Featuring:

  • Atticus Bastow

Swarm & Murmuration aims to merge the orientation of the artist and the audience. Situated in and around the patrons, a large group of performers slowly build a singing, buzzing cloud of tones with the use of digital tone generators (provided by smartphones). At the cloud’s peak of intensity, the performers move about the space, waving the tone generators through the air as they go – the movement of the phones will create subtle shifts in the pitch relationship between each individual part of the cloud of notes, creating a swarming, undulating sonic entity.