‘Danced moment #02’ is the recording of a live performance with Magdalena Hylak (choreography & dance) at Project Arts Centre in Dublin.

In response to Magdalena’s physicality, choreographic principles, and experimental process, my approach to sound has, since 2022, deliberately moved away from preconceived musical ideas. Rather than working with parameters such as instruments, pitch or rhythm, I began again from noises, pure frequencies and complex sound generators. The work relies on intermodulation, feedback, distortion and filtering, while avoiding spatial processing such as delay or reverb, as well as any pre-recorded sounds or samples. Sound is generated exclusively in real time and articulated through live mixing and masking techniques.

A central concern of the artistic research emerging from this collaboration is the investigation of sonic physicality – understood as the capacity of sound to act materially on bodies in space – in which loudness functions as a primary compositional and perceptual parameter. Within this framework, sound is approached not as an accompanying musical layer, but as an active force that engages directly with movement, presence, and corporeal perception.

For this project, I developed a custom software environment designed for 4.2 surround sound, allowing for spatial articulation suited to a dance context in which bodies move through space. The system is built from eight legacy Reaktor instruments, which I continue to modify throughout the process. These instruments are performed live via a tactile Cycling’74 Max interface, enabling an embodied, responsive relationship between sound and movement.

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