Creative residency.
Scaling Limits is a solo performance of electronic music.
Inspired by the concept of Non Scalability popularized by American anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, the project places gesture at the heart of the improvisation device. The percussion of the interface's pads triggers computer processes that are as many different "sound units". The gesture, through the choice of pads or the pressure exerted during percussion, triggers and modifies computer processing in real time. It links these different "sound units" and gradually builds the musical discourse.
Gesture is at the heart of the construction of musical discourse. Fragile and contingent, it is a phenomenon that emerges from a complex network of interactions, interrelated with the performance environment.
This project is also the subject of a photographic work entitled Openfield - Non Scalability Theory.
Production
Association Lez'arts à l'écoute
Rafaël Carosi
Performer and composer of electronic music
He studied guitar and continued his training in electronic music, notably in the Master II - RIM program under Laurent Pottier and in the RIM team at Ircam-Centre Pompidou under Serge Lemouton.
He has performed at the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris with ensemble le Balcon (conductor Maxime Pascale), at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest with electronic artist Murcof, at Studio Eole in Blagnac with composer Julien Vincenot and visual artist John Bardakos, at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes and at La collégiale in Angers with soloist Elissa Cassini and visual artist Yves Kuperberg. He took part in writing discussions and recorded the piece Hyperlinks - Asset(s) failed to load properly for guitar, flute and electronics by Julien Vincenot as part of his doctorate in composition at Harvard University, under the direction of Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. He also participated in the creation of John Supko's Imitation du Sommeil and worked with the artist duo Scenocosme.
Rafaël Carosi
composition, live electronics