Biennale College Musica / Jaehoon Choi - Brushing Improvisation no. 2 / Severin Dornier - Kaijū

Brushing Improvisation – N°2 is an improvisational performance newly formulated for the Biennale Musica 2023. It aims to transform the nuanced materiality of the brush and brushing gestures into a musical/sonic expression through mediated technology. For the performance, I use the Brushing Interface, which is a self-made physical interface that detects the position and pressure of the brushing gesture and its sound in real time. The improvisation is aroused from my deep inter-relation with the interface as a builder and performer, and my body takes the central role in this creative process.

Kaijū is a concert performance in which the audience experiences the awakening of an insectoid hexapod robot in an artificial, desert-like environment. The concert hall turns metaphorically into a giant spider itself and the audience sees and listens to the world through the sensory apparatus of the robot. Are we experiencing the beginning of artificial life? A futuristic utopia; a future scenario in which our planet has returned to an earlier stage and only the legacy of technology has survived our human civilisation? Or even a logical next step in the “origin of species”?