Folded Bodies
Folded Bodies is an audiovisual instrument whose body and brains are derived from the same geometry. A seed point cloud is iteratively mirrored across reflection planes, accumulating bilateral symmetry; the resulting cloud renders as a 3D body and wires up a spiking network — each point a neuron, each nearest-neighbor edge a synapse. Probes scattered on the body read its activity and drive a polyphonic synth with pitched and granular voices. Each folded body is an instance the performer plays by tuning the network in real time.
Videos
Ambient
Compact geometry with few probes and low activity, punctuated by occasional spike trains.
Expansive
Sonified folding and spike propagation across expansive geometry, with live tuning of the weight bias.
Folding
A folding sequence whose auditory behavior diversifies as the geometry grows more complex.
Spatial
Depth-driven filter modulation across a moving, expansive body, with small localized activity slowly cascading to the whole network.
Toroidal
A toroidal seed yields a sparse, knotted body; spike trains propagate slowly, producing a correspondingly sparse audio texture.