What are the aesthetic and technical outcomes when the performer gets decentralized as the main agent of a sonic instrument? How can we automate and program using sound objects rather than computation alone? How can we design an acoustic instrument able to capture and manipulate the otherwise inaudible content of infrasound?

By amplifying the harmonic spectra of infrasonic sources, an effect of acoustic distortion is produced. This effect, called CLSTR0, has collected many different instrumental clusters, instrumental bodies that can achieve and manipulate this sound. These instrumental clusters can be range from being a collection of traditional percussion instruments, expanded audio-visual installations, interactive acoustic environments, as well as an upcoming acoustic instrument being designed along Domenico Melchiore.

Disembodiment as a Performative Spectrum (2024-2026), is an artistic research project developed within the Music and Research program at the Musik-Akademie Basel.

“I once heard a ghost whisper distortion. Now I am helping the ghost find different bodies to posses.”

(Picture: Finn Mannion, 2023)