Composer, music technologist and sound artist. Sonic archaeology: composing by excavating and re-authenticating an over-saturated archive.

Continuant

A sustained negotiation between a prepared-guitar corpus and an asymmetrical, darbuka-derived exciter, navigated in real time by Somax2.

Year: 2026
Category: AI & Machine Listening
Instrumentation: Live human–machine performance, stereo
Duration: 5:08

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Continuant unfolds as a sustained negotiation between a prepared-guitar corpus and an asymmetrical, darbuka-derived exciter.

Guided by continuous machine listening, Somax2 navigates and recombines the corpus without reproducing its original sequence. Individual fragments gradually lose their identity and become part of an extended electroacoustic morphology: a form maintained through repetition, deviation and continuous renewal.

The work was realised as a live human–machine performance. Its larger trajectory, system parameters and interventions were shaped in real time by the composer.

Corpus and exciter sources

“prepared-guitar.wav” by groovelator — Freesound #383094, CC BY 4.0.

“Ignocense Dumbek.wav” by JohnLaVine333 — Freesound #237287, CC BY-NC 4.0.

Both were edited, rearranged and transformed for use as corpus and exciter.

01 AI What the C*rp*s Lenition An alternation between two exciters that never quite settle into one another — falling water, punctual and ametric, and bowed metal, continuous and without attack — with Somax2 changing what it listens for as they trade places.

02 AI What the C*rp*s False Return A heterogeneous vocal corpus treated as an unstable memory whose responses repeatedly disappear and return in altered form, driven by a dry saxophone solo as live exciter.

03 AI A Room For The Belated Sentences Written for TAK Ensemble at the KEAR Electroacoustic Residency: an ensemble playing alongside a corpus of its own pre-recorded material, navigated live by SoMax 2 and FluCoMa.

Corpus and exciter sources

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