CMMR 2021 – Construction in Kneading – Ryo Ikeshiro

Construction in Kneading live generative audiovisual work by Ryo Ikeshiro program notes: Construction in Kneading (CiK) is a live generative audiovisual work. It can be performed live using multiple channels of video and audio, surrounding the audience in sound and moving image. It performs simultaneous sonification and visualisation – or “audiovisualisation” [1] – of a generative system based on the Mandelbox [2], an n-dimensional fractal inspired by the Mandelbrot set. Its recursion formula resembles the actions of kneading dough in bread making, similar to the baker’s map. It is a speculative inquiry into the abstract inner-workings of an algorithmic entity whose behaviour is presented in the sensory world through a live “audiovisualisation”, generating both sound and moving image in real-time without either following the other as in most VJ practice and sound visualisations. Furthermore, no pre-recorded audio samples, conventional synthesis methods, and pre-rendered movies and textures are