cuticles

Forces: Percussion x2

‘Cuticles’ is a percussion duo focused around the concept of skin as a barrier between us and the world, and technologies of skin as both a way controlling and taming its outward appearance and a way of interfacing with consumer electronics. The piece fuses the live sounds of the percussionists with those harvested by an AI algorithm, which is trained to scour the internet for non-verbal bodily sounds. Cuticles functions as a commentary on our alienation from our own bodies, and way of offering glimpses at reconnection as we watch two bodies coordinating together in a room with the sounds of strange others being pulled in from the digital periphery.