headcrash | Yann Leguay
Performances

This project is a kind of media archaeology, digging into obsolete hardware for hidden meanings. ‘headcrash’ interacts with computer data storage devices as raw material to produce unpredictable instruments. Four hard drives are used as turntables, hacked in many different ways and picked up with several magnetic sensors. Technically, the computer is controlling the hard drives via open-source software and Arduino, with speed and movements of the arms being triggered by electricity and sound being picked up directly from the sources, without any audio treatment. For the version in Ancient Messene, the concept might extend to reading even older media than analogue storage devices, what otherwise are stones…

2 June 2018
20:00-20:30
Ekklesiasterion