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Conversation Theory is the first in a series of works produced as part of my research into relationships between the cybernetics of the 1960s and music. The work is a self-organizing feedback system consisting of four connected steel plates that converse in audio feedback. The system takes about half an hour to tune so that the voice of each plate contributes equally. The music produced is recorded in one take with no edits or interference other than my presence in the room. I have added a little eq and a touch of reverb to simulate the feel of an exhibition space. The work responds to ideas of performative knowledge and self-organising systems found in the work of Gordon Pask and Roland Kayn.

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released June 19, 2013

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