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Pairs of microphones and speakers are arranged in a space to act as independent ‘agents’ creating and listening to the sound of the environment. With no outside interference, each agent’s periodic sound emission will slowly self-synchronise with their neighbours, eventually leading to single unified sound pulse.
Any environmental noise will cause the agent to drift from their global synchronisation forming isolated clusters of synchronisation and emergent rhythms/tones as their phase shifts.
blink was installed in the cavernous area in the courtyard at ONCA, Brighton as part of my MA in Music and Sonic Media. The full report is avaliable for download.
