A double post-residency presentation by Jonathan Cant and Augustė Vickunaitė:

Jonathan Cant has spent the past month researching audio technology for protest applications. This research has led to the development of a small, open-source system that connects multiple WAV players in a self-built mesh network. Each player carries its own sound file, allowing them to function as a low-cost multitrack installation that operates independently and can be triggered remotely.
The project aims to provide activists with tools to irritate, empty, or disrupt spaces in ways that are affordable, accessible, and playful. To achieve this, the work focuses on exciters (or transducers) — a technology that miniaturizes the speaker and makes it easier to conceal. Because a transducer causes the entire surface it’s attached to to vibrate, the issue of a single, easily located sound source is eliminated.
Beyond activism, the technology also offers multiple artistic possibilities, giving artists a simple and inexpensive way to create distributed, multitrack sound installations.

Augustė Vickunaitė will present her performance Le poids de la journée, a performance experiment that is exploring how analogue audio tape can become an extension of her own body. She sought the most direct way to visualize how the body’s energy transfers into the mechanical energy of reel-to-reel tape recorders—energy that ultimately manifests as sound. This exploration sonifies the struggle and exchange of energy within an internal system composed of the human body and mechanical analogue audio tape recorders.