Avoidance Strategies

The "no input mixing desk" is a soundboard with outputs wired to inputs, thus creating a feedback loop. The No Input Software Environment (NISE) is a creation of the artist that brings this process inside the computer. Here, virtual circuits provide the only sonic material. Resonant filters create chaotic attractors, dynamic compression boosts the noise floor, frequency equalisation tailors timbre and delay lines disperse frequency concentrations over time. As this emergent system evolves, tiny changes to the control parameters produce divergent results. This cybernetic system challenges the naive belief in the digital domain as a site of perfect representation and replication.