Pulsar Threads (Performance)

Pulsar Threads is an improvised performance version of a fixed media release of an existing work, and explores transformation of material sourced from the New Pulsar Generator (nuPG). Pulsar Threads explores, often simultaneously, buffer scratching, corpus scrubbing, waveform scuffing, live sampling and a range of time-based, spectral and neural transformations of material. In order to achieve embodied and rapid transitions between different kinds of material, samples from nuPg improvisations have been analysed in a variety of ways using the Fluid Corpus Manipulation (FluCoMa) toolkit to allow for agile polyphonic and gestural exploration and expression using multitouch controllers. Pulsar Threads makes connections in material though superimposition, stratification, juxtaposition and interpolation. There’s a retroactive injection of the sound and morphology of pulsar synthesis into an established practice of working with sampled material in real-time in ways that are influenced by both early tape works and modern turntablism.