MUTEK | K-Phi-A – organic digital breezes and mechanofluidity 

A very just example of the synergy between human and machine, the Vancouver’s trio K-Phi-A bends, twists, re-imagines the limits between the organic and the virtual and takes us into that portal – an ecstatic voyage of pure sensorial exaltation… and a feast to the body-machine.

Revival invades not just the scene but the whole room and the insides of our bodies in a perpetual movement and collision – multiplying, expanding, mutating – an experience of continuing renewal, which might address its title, conveys a reality in which we live now, where information and even time travels in velocities beyond our sane comprehension while our breath is taken away (which might, again, address its title?).

K-Phi-A investigates, dissects the potential of the creative relation between human and artificial intelligence in a space of ultimate spontaneity – Revival is the result of real-time audiovisual composing and dynamic dialogue with designed AI systems, where image responds to sound, machine responds to human and human to machine – a whole ecosystem that is very much alive, that crosses both dimensions in and out, permeates the barriers – a wall becomes a membrane, and it is extremely elastic.

K-Phi-A is composed by Keon Ju Maverick Lee, electronic drummer designing and improvising with AI systems; Philippe Pasquier aka Monobor, researcher and composer performing live-electronics; VJ Amagi designing and operating audio-reactive systems and AI agent Autolume.

Photo : Vivien Gaumand