Intra-action

Intra-action is an experimental computer music system and improvised performance where human agency and perceiving generative processes create an ecology of unconventional synthetic sonorities. The work is inspired by philosopher Karen Barad [1], for whom phenomena or objects are not external to one another, and do not precede their encounters, as implied in ‘interaction’: instead they emerge from ‘intra-action’, an interior process of relationships. In this work, intra-action is both a process occurring inside the computer – where morphological processes are shaped in relation to one another through machine listening and agent-based organisation – and a posthuman relation where ‘human’ and ‘machine’ agency are co-dependent. Intra-action was commissioned by, and premiered at, NEXT Festival 2019 in Bratislava.