Autogenous Noise

Interactive audio-visual program, 2013

Autogenous Noise is an interactive system built around real-time audio feedback and self-organising behaviour. Developed as an early Max MSP project, it treats feedback not only as an effect but as a generative instrument whose dynamics are shaped by a set of constraints. The work explores how evolving feedback can remain performable: the system produces continuously changing timbral and spatial textures, while the performer steers its behaviour through parameter control and live intervention. Visual output is generated by analysing phase relationships within the feedback signal, translating sonic instability into time-based graphics. The result frames feedback as a situated relation between sound and environment, where emergent behaviour becomes a material for improvisation rather than a purely automated process.

Developing Documentary Video
Footage from PureGold Festival, Southbank Centre, London (2014 May)

Audio-Visual Test Video