Recursive Care
2022 | feedback robot
Recursive Care is part of a series of pieces for an industrial robotic arm controlling audio feedback.
Explores the sounds of acoustic feedback produced by the physical relationships between a microphone, loudspeaker cones and the surrounding acoustic environment. The room becomes a giant resonator amplifying both acoustic activity and inactivity, and the sounds become a product of spatial relationships. The industrial robot controls the movement and position of the microphone, and its choreography allows a relative control of the behaviour and transformations of the acoustic feedback, and thus the possibility to recreate sounds, gestures and tones.
At Nonagon Festival (2022) the work was combined with live-video visuals by Annie Tådne. The visuals explore the very same recursive phenomena but by visual means. A camera is pointed toward its own output, which creates optical feedback. The robot’s movements together with the light create organic recursive patterns in realtime.