Sébastien Roger

Folded Bodies is a live audiovisual performance for two humans and two artificial nervous systems.
In this new version, created for MW:M, two instances are networked into a quartet — two performers, two nervous systems. Each body is rendered on its own projector — two organisms, two screens, two voices — and spikes from each network cross the wire to stimulate the other. Each machine becomes the other’s environment. The performers fold, tune, and perturb, but never fully control: the performance is a four-way negotiation of attention, in which humans relate to their own instruments, to each other’s, and to each other through machines that are also negotiating with each other.

Welcome to this year’s Hybrid Music Lab: our first edition featuring a shared exhibition space alongside demos, performances, and installations. Here, everything is tangible, hands-on, and open to exploration.

Dive in, experiment and experience music, sound and technology coming together in an inspiring, playful environment of discovery and collaboration.