UVTOWER - @ArsElectronica 2020

Abstract

Art performance exploring rhythm as the result of structural relationships with the UVTOWER. The performance has been publicly broadcasted Sun Sep 13 on the Ars Electronica Voyages Channel. UVTOWER is a generative musical system made of lasers and mirrors reflecting on the notion of growth in an accelerated age through sound and interaction. The flow of the rhythm is traced in a circle by a laser beam situated at the top of a tower. The laser reflection caused by mirrors symbolises the system reflecting on itself and results in the creation of metaphoric echo chambers which scale-up exponentially up to the point of making the system collapsing and starting anew. Such a metaphor is rendered through sound. Adding and removing mirrors leads to the system generating denser/faster or rarefied/slower music structures describing its build-ups and falls.