Contingent Relations

Contingent Relations(2024) investigates machine improvisation guided by the principles of cellular automata. Operating within a global rule set, the performance unfolds as software agents dynamically negotiate the music based on their unique perceptual states, scope of influence, and affordances.

Factishes! #1 Friday, November 29, 2024 New Music Lab, 6th floor, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Amare multi-channel performance by: Sergei Demin | Seina | Evert Van Gestel | W. K. Werkowicz | Nth | Guyshawn

The series of events aims to build a platform for exploration of the realities surrounding objects. Objects are full of hidden meanings and interactions that extend beyond their appearance, indicating that they are constituted not only socially but also through physical and technological processes. Technologically-mediated environments for audio generation allow one to reveal speculative realities of sound objects. The event series are supposed to emphasise the tension between perceived sound (fetish) and its underlying structure (fact)* inviting participants to engage with the duality of sound as both an object of perception and an independent entity. *’Factishes’ presuppose the existence of objects that intermediate the way they are perceived (fetish) and their reality (fact). The word ‘factish’ was originally introduced by Bruno Latour in “On The Modern Cult Of The Factish Gods”