Membracinae

This improvised performance deploys metastable networks of vibrotactile and audible feedback to intertwine Stapleton's custom-made electroacoustic instrument Volatile Assemblage (aka VOLA) with Speers's acoustic drums driven by air pumps and transducers. The music that emerges through such intra-actions tends towards unforeseen behaviours and contingent structures, akin to the steering of a small ship on tempestuous waters, or the communication of insects through the rapid bouncing of abdomens against a shared substrate, thereby creating a kind of 'aesthetic interfacing' between performers, instruments, audience, environment and their collective movements through time and space.