(d)RAW is a graphic-based live electronics performance for a human being and a set of autonomous agents, or scanners, based on an instrument-interface called CABOTO. A graphic score sketched on a canvas is scanned by a computer vision system, interpreted and rendered by an audio synthesizer. The graphic score is a map, traversed by a set of semi-autonomous scanners. The performer tries to keep control over these agents, to exploit their glitches, their failures. The graphic score is projected on the screen, creating a visual feedback of the ongoing process. Inspired by the optical sound experiments by pioneers in Soviet Russia during the 30s, the works by Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, Daphne Oram and Xenakis’ UPIC system, CABOTO tries to challenge the boundaries between the concepts of composition, score, performance, instrument. CABOTO has been developed as part of a Master Research Project at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatoire (The Hague, NL).

CABOTO / (d)RAW has been presented at:

STEIM, Connector Series, Amsterdam (NL), December 2018

AUDIO ART Festival, Pula (HR), August 2018

NIME Conference, Blacksburg, VA (US) June 2018

Ephemére Series, Studio LOOS, The Hague (NL), May 2018

Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (NL), March 2018