A system for realtime manipulation of sound generated by different permutations of electromagnetic energy: the fields themselves, interactions between magnetic devices, and vibration created with these means. 

Electromagnetic fields are produced by all manner of electronic devices and can be received wirelessly as audio signals; these fields are present everywhere in nature as well, emanating from the earth and organic life forms.  The intention is not only to observe that activity, but to structure and compose it, using it as a medium in itself and finding its generative potentials. In these installations, coils and wire loops transmit electrical fields with live or preprogrammed audio; they are captured and controlled with wearable inductive pickups. Audio streams are processed in Max/MSP and diffused with a hybrid flat-panel sound system. Non-linear feedback events are also created with shifting digital filters.

Electromagnetics, by their non-contact mysteries, recall the metaphysics of the Quaker philosopher Rufus Jones:

‘’We discover energies of every type through organs and instruments of manifestation. The reason the race was slow in discovering the nature of electrical energy was that men had no adequate instrument of manifestation. Its manifestation was either too feeble or too powerful. We began to discover its real nature as soon as the dynamo was invented and electricity could break through and manifest itself. The dynamo does not create electricity; it merely lets it break through.’’

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