Distributed Listening

'Distributed Listening' is a music performance dealing with the concepts of distributed agency, machine listening, and adaptive sound processing. The focus of the project is the exploration of a miscellaneous technological apparatus, where digital and electroacoustic instruments are situated in the same environment, sharing data in the form of audio signals and descriptors. Particular relevance is given to how this shapes the functioning of each instrument: as a mediator between performers, as a semi-autonomous agent able to exhibit adaptive behaviors and react to the incoming data, and on its ability to influence the rest of the system.