RANGER'S GAME OF TELEPHONE
2025
installation, 8-channel audio
A self-evolving soundscape of phone calls between houses, generated from a custom random number-based algorithm and synthesized in MaxMSP. See code here.
TELEPHONE investigates the 'aliveness' of autonomous systems which seek to parameterize organic human behavior, questioning the paradoxical containment of life within mathematical boundaries. It also explores generative musical composition as the inversion of notation and performance. TELEPHONE's call logs (pictured below) function as notation-after-the fact: notation as documentation, rather than instruction.
a TELEPHONE call log, notation as documentation
TELEPHONE was created as part of a worldwide game of artist's telephone, published here. It was built in residency at I-Park Foundation, Inc. in August 2025, and was exhibited at Base Camp Studios in Seattle, WA between October 10 - Dec 13, 2025.
Installed at Base Camp Studios 2, Seattle, WA