Twelve Hours, Same Time
RedSpills Duo

Although Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) are not new, they remain on the fringes of musical performance. We don’t wait for the mainstream to catch up with the times, instead, we push forward innovative approaches to musical performance in this context. DMIs open doors to exploration of gestures as part of musical expression, which leads to the possibility of “story telling” using gesture and sound. We embrace the recent (and not so recent) development of network technologies enabling remote collaboration, virtual reality, creative coding and integration of different creative audio and visual tools. This leads us to creating performances in virtual or hybrid spaces. We are inspired by traditional ways of multidisciplinary artistic expression and map them to the digital world.



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RedSpills is a group that sprang out of Kaon’CPT collective of remotely improvising artists spanning 15 timezones. Twelve Hours Same Time is our research-creation project where we explore the use of Digital Musical Instruments, and networked protocols, to interact with virtual and physical objects. In our work, the distance is the essence, and we need to weave it into all aspects of our exploration together. We have been exploring hybrid performances using both potential virtual spaces and physical locations, and gesture, in all its manifestations (physical, musical, visual, digital).





Michał Seta is a sound artist, improviser, creative code plumber, and digital arts researcher. Transdisciplinarity is his daily bread, and it warps him off the beaten path. He co-founded the band No One Receiving as well as UniSecs, a spoken word and electroacoustic music duo, and RedSpills, a DMI trio. As a coder, he has contributed his skills to several artists as well as some Open Source software. He has ventured into interactive art installations with [IR]rational, a commission from the Montreal Science Centre, and Re-Collect, an award-winning project that has been presented in North America, Europe and the Middle East. His short film [*]nScape was selected for the first Drone Cinema Film Festival and was followed by several musical releases in rapid succession, mainly on Silent Records. Recently, he has been interested in using video games (of his own craft) as a vehicle for musical expression.





Dirk Johan Stromberg is an Improvisor, Audio Engineer, Maker, and Production Designer. His body of work explores the dynamic interaction between performers and technology in performance practice. Designing both hardware and software has led to the development of various interfaces, synthesis techniques, installation works, electro-acoustic instruments, and interdisciplinary works. Dirk is currently a Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.


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