Mortals Electric

Audiovisual live performance in 5.1 surround sound

In its continuous sound and image exploration process, the Dutch audio-visual trio Telcosystems is focused on the research of the relation between the behaviour of programmed numerical logic and the perception of a conversion of this behaviour into the physical world. Following the idea of composition into a unity of human interactions and mechanical behaviours and having in mind the intuitiveness of such processes of composition, they create a form of live cinema in which auditive and visual domain are united in a sensually impressive spatial experience. Exceptionality in the approach of generating abstract visuality and audibility lies in their understanding of image and sound as a unique entity, and in blurring the boundary between the visualisation of sound and the emergence of sound from the visual.

Mortals Electric is a vivacious interaction between a multi-layered, abstract spatial graphics and besieging audibility, inspired by a sharp, restrained and lucid aestheticism closely related to the utilised technology. Layers of strobing organic structures, deep machinic drones and waves of digital noise introduce a powerful provocation to the limits of human sensory apparatus, opening an unusual 360° spatiality to the new forms, which definitely presents a challenge to the acquired cinematic experience.

https://telcosystems.net/