bug – live version

bug considers machine listening as a live performance, presenting it in a site-specific three-dimensional audio environment. Beams of sound from the transborder agglomeration of Hong Kong and Shenzhen are made audible using directional speakers, sonically activating the architecture of the space. Partial soundscapes and lasers are projected and shifted along the walls and the ceiling, transporting the audience into a parallel soundscape and allowing them to listen in, together with a neural network, as it navigates through field recordings in Ambisonics, a spherical audio format.