Endogenous Music I

Live performance with biosignals.

2025

Endogenous Music I is a live performance work exploring shared memory, embodiment, and collective listening. The performance centers on personal childhood home videos contributed by both myself and invited audience participants. These intimate visual fragments are presented alongside live electronic sound shaped by physiological signals gathered in real-time during the performance.

Rather than treating biological signals as emotional signifiers, the work approaches them as parallel temporal presences. Heart rate, bodily tension, and subtle physiological fluctuations influence musical processes while remaining partially unpredictable, allowing sound to emerge through coexistence between performer, audience, and environment.

The performance creates a situation in which private memories become a communal experience. Audience members encounter their own past images while simultaneously contributing to the evolving sonic field, dissolving distinctions between observer and participant. It unfolds as a shared temporal space driven by lived experience rather than compositional authority, inviting attentive listening to the fragile relationship between memory, body, and sound.