Hex on Data

Hex on Data (15’18”) is an interactive composition that explores networked audiovisual systems using an ever-evolving modular system designed for audiovisual interplay. One computer runs bespoke audio software, the other computer runs bespoke visual software; each musician has access to every parameter on the other musician’s computer. We celebrate network connectivity and consider how each element–hardware and software, tangible and virtual–of the system can both enact and respond to generative processes through gestural control and data manipulation. We explore the role and affordances of each element and how these elements contribute towards the temporal sonic and visual space. As each element is designed, tested, and integrated, new control functions and performance affordances inspire the next developments. The fluid and iterative nature of this process is mirrored in the performance practice; thus, it becomes evident that the “work” is not simply the performance or the physical instrument or code but the open-ended and ever-transient system.