The impossible patch (2023)

Installation/Performance for the Release of "The universe looking at itself through a tiny mirror"

la_cápsula Zürich, June 2023

Pure Data, Guitar, Samples

In The Impossible Patch, Tobias Meier has been trying for several years to recreate a network of the world's active forces in the visual programming language Pure Data. He wants to investigate how we are connected to the world through our personal experience. For the release of his solo album "The universe looking at itself through a tiny mirror", he inserts the album, reduced to a single guitar, as a singularity into the installation and lets it interact with other singularities.

The guitar is recorded and synthesized and played back as an altered sound in twelve positions in space. This in turn triggers other guitar singularities: on the one hand samples of variations of the album in all twelve keys, on the other hand in the moment and automatically generated live samples. These samples are again snythetized and sent back to the guitar. Sonically, a feedback loop is created that becomes more and more random the longer no new information is fed into the network.

(During the performance, the audience was invited to play the guitar themselves and thereby contribute to the installation.)