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Eternal Accelerando

Research output: Creative and Literary Works in Non - textual FormRGC 44 - Performance and participation in exhibits

Abstract

Pop music tracks are transformed so the pitch and speed continually rise higher and faster to happy hardcore heaven without ever becoming slower and lower. The process is known as the Risset rhythm based on the Shepard tone, an aural illusion equivalent to Escher’s Stairs. The accompanying music videos are also accelerated, satirising the hyper-sexualisation of promotional videos.

Eternal Accelerando is a DJ (with an optional VJ) set which can also be presented as fixed-media. It is a light-hearted response to accelerationism which calls for an acceleration of technosocial processes to subvert its neoliberal origins or to further capitalist progress to hasten its self-demise.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 23 Apr 2022
EventConcierto Resumen International Computer Music Conference 2021 (ICMC 2021) - Santiago, Chile
Duration: 23 Apr 202223 Apr 2022
https://audio.ing.puc.cl/ConciertoICMC/

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Research Keywords

  • Audio-visual
  • Plunderphonics
  • Mashup
  • Shepard tone
  • Risset rhythm
  • Computer music

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