RUST consists of Jean-François Laporte playing newly-invented acoustic instruments and Benjamin Thigpen playing the computer. Laporte’s acoustic instruments are often built around the use of compressed air, vibrating membranes and tubes; Thigpen’s electronic instruments frequently involve complex signal processing, gestural inputs and arbitrary mathematical processes. In both cases, the instruments intentionally occupy a space at the limits of human control – retaining, in spite of their extreme sophistication, a primitive organic element akin to that of natural processes.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:35:47 +0000