Torsion

Torsion

Duration: 07:26

Instrumentation: Percussion Duo, Optional Beatboxer, Live Electronics

Technical Specifications: .wav 48kHz stereo audio, HD 1080p video

Performers: Tim Roth, Gordon Fry, Adam Fainman, Tyler Cunningham, Steven Webb

Year: 2019

As our lives become increasingly digitally linked, what is the current relationship between us and technology, and is there a possible point of mutually beneficial convergence?

Using homemade percussion instruments constructed from industrial springs, boxes, and elastic bands, paired with a beat-boxer, Torsion comments on our constantly shifting perception towards our relationship with technology, through the interaction between ‘the human’ (beatboxer), and technology as embodied by the created percussion instruments.

Live electronics and visuals seek to magnify the volatility of this relationship through the visual and auditory amplification of gestures, and the blending of sonic textures — further commenting on our increasing convergence as a species with the technology we have created.

The piece should ideally be performed in a dark room with the performers operating behind a projection screen in order to further obscure the human element in the performance. Speaker setup can be either stereo, or in quadraphonic, 5.1, or 7.1 configuration.