Nest

A piece made for Copy Paste Waste, around a source file (.mp3) inherited by Bruno Gola.

Curr. Tereza Havlíková (lead), Katharina Von Hagenow - 2024

URL params

#noinfo: hide cartel box and its button

#auto: autoplay mode

Description

Bruno Gola found a folder on his old computer containing files fromlive performance he played a long time ago. He gave Raphaël Bastide the actual instrument of the sound performance: the SuperCollider source files. SuperCollider is a software program for creating sound compositions with code, in real time. But Bruno also gave a mp3 excerpt of what the code does. Raphaël Bastide chose to not install SuperCollider and work exclusively with that audio file when upcycling.

Raphaël Bastide composed other tracks to go together with Bruno’s, and build a nest around it, and after months of iterations, he ended up with a cozy audio and visual space referring to the personal web, protected from the fierce commercial logics of the modern Internet and outside the major platforms.

Bastide thus refers to a term from computer science, where nesting means organising information in layers or nested within one another. Like an urban bird's nest built from various natural and artificial materials, Raphaël's nest is also a collage. The interactive website combines different salvaged visual elements such as default colour gradients, photos of his compost and audio controls. By clicking on the website and using the player, a separate world of sound and image fragments is created, which collapses anew with every movement, as in a kaleidoscope.

Licenses

This repository is under AGPL V3 with exeptions for the audio files that are under CC BY SA.