Concert on 25.5.25, 19:30h @Raumschiff Linz
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Somatic Composition: Movement in Latent Space
An improvised set with DIY guitar by the artist gesture becomes sound, body becomes score
In Somatic Composition, the body becomes both instrument and score — a sensing, moving entity that sculpts sound in real time. Obi Blanche invites the listener into a postdigital landscape where gesture, machine learning, and a prepared DIY guitar converge in a living, improvised composition.
Using hacked sensors and custom systems developed at Tangible Music Lab, Obi Blanche performs with a self-built guitar that resists traditional technique. Instead, it responds to the tilt of the torso, the arc of a shoulder, the rhythm of shifting weight. Sound arises not only from strings, but from posture, acceleration, and resistance — forming a continuous somatic feedback loop.
Latent space — that hidden realm within neural networks — becomes a terrain of embodied expression. This navigation is not analytical, but intuitive: a tactile dance with trained models inside Ben Wesch’s Pure Data patch, improvised and felt through the body.
This music is not composed in advance, but uncovered through motion, memory, and machine. It rejects rigid authorship, embraces the unpredictable, and renders the invisible audible.
+ KABUFF EXHIBTION by @soulymoon (instagram name)
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Entry on free donation