About
Upcoming performance: Ars Electronica Festival. 10. Sep, 2026Inner Radiance presents a first-of-it's-kind dance performance in which ultrasound will be used to build live-generated 3d renderings of the performers’ organic interiors as projected visual elements for the dancers to interact with; moving in, around and through. This work expands upon prior artistic explorations of medical imaging by being the first to use live captured volumes in a performative context.
The field of medical imagery is commonly regimented to those tasks for which it was designed – the diagnoses of pathology. These medical contexts often limit the scope of creative exploration to those within the educational realm. Radiological presentations often portray the novel concepts of the technology, but frequently as a means to showcase the science itself. Thus many do not delve into the metaphorical possibilities presented in considering the body in the absence of it visual surface layer, nor regularly address concerns of medical science through a critical lens.These considerations are multi-fold but include how perception without the visual boundary strips away those associated biases of race and in some contexts gender. These same biases circle back to the diagnostic level as they have been been time and again the source of dismissal or misdiagnosis of medical concern.
Read more as published on the articles for the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI, NY): "Overexposed and Inner Radiance: Medical Imaging and Art"
Inner Radiance expands upon the research found in Exquisite Corpus to reveal the light inside us all.
[soundtrack available on bandcamp]
CREDITS
Choreogrpahy and Movement:
Laura GagliardiAriathney Coyne
Visual Design:
Kevin BlackistoneMusic Composition:
Kevin BlackistoneFunding:
Linz Media Arts AwardLand Oberösterreich
Addition Support:
Ars Electronica CenterFelix Vielinger
Premier
Ars Electronica Center, Linz - May 2026
A new take on the classic audio loop!
The Tangiballs create surrealistic loops as you record on a spherical topology constantly sliding and swirling between and across lines and loops.
Features
- two sphere loops (table of 90 x 1sec samples)
- switchable control to manipulate each left or right sample with either or both controllers
- recording, playback, clearing
- manual and continuous looping
- seperable sphere controller for ergonomic table placement
- variable play/record head offset possition (get f'in weird!)
- mono in, left/right and headphone out corresponding to each controller
- positional indicators
Theory
Explorations in recording and playback on magnetic medium in spherical topology. This devices allows a more tangible yet randomized approach to the concept of the delay or looper. By recording audio to a spherical surface, one can not only create linear time-loops but scrub between different times of the recording simultaneously. Additionally, the physical interaction of the performer moving the balls back and forth and around can create non-linear circles, circuits and spirals of sound not traditionally possible.
Current Developments
The controller is now being heavily redesigned for usability and sound quality. Among other features, it now allows a continuous follow, allowing a loop velocity to carry after manual release. This facilitates loop recording and allows new possibilties in the playback; most notably the ability to let the mixed-up loops continue hands-free.
This project is being developed in two permutations:
1.A heavy roll-ball is coated in magnetic recording medium works with an array of physical tape record an play heads. [pictured below]
2.A digital board is used to create a simulation of the same [pictured above], but with additional possibilities and alternative sound artifacts that result from the digital algorithms.
Information published about the production in: A Spherical Tape Topology for Non-linear Audio Looping in New Interfaces for Musical Expression, (NIME2025)
Github repository here.
Now In Beta Testing!
About
This work combines dance, imagery and sound to explore principles of the quantum world as a joint endeavour between The University of Arts and Design, Linz, Anton Bruckner Private University and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna. It exists as six movements that overlap in theme and design. To produce the visuals, I considered aspects including quantum uncertaintly, oscillation, wave particle duality, tuneling, gravity, spherical harmonics, simultaneity and symmetry. These are generated in concert between the Pharus tracking system and VVVV visual design software to produce content that both reacts and maps to the positions of the performers, while additionally reacting the the pre-composed audio.
The concept of the phantom occupies the public zeitgeist in myriad forms. Commonly, it is an incorporeality of spirit. As a physical, interior concept it is the consciousness which pilots so much meat. In medical ultrasound, a “phantom” is a synthetic organic assemblage, used for training the technician in their craft. Such are typically comprised of a form of gelatinous substance with additives to simulate tissue, bone, veins, and the like. Here, the synthesis is speculative in form.
Phantoms are a synthesis of the body, while the performance uses the ultrasound result for its own sound synthesis – If a synthesis is produced by a synthetic, is it anything but a phantom? Spectral Phantoms seeks auditory ghosts *via* the machine. Phantoms designed not for medical training, but for synthesis capabilities, create not only an avenue for unique auditory soundscapes, but visually compelling speculative body-forms – needing not conform to any part of a real or existing physiology. In probing the self, we find our phantom, yet what do we find in probing the speculative phantom.
That which is spectral likewise is layered in meaning. Again, it means the phantasmagoric, but it covers as well the frequency ranges of wave-based systems. In the translation of the body via phased array ultrasound to visual image slice, then to inverse Fourier transformed spectra it merges the physical, and incorporeal. The body real and phantom synthetic combine as audio-visual specter.
Publication
Ultrasound Probe as Tool for Tangible Sound Performance Using Physically Sculpted Phantoms. in New Interfaces for Musical Expression, (NIME2026)
Schmiede Hallein Werschau, Hallein
Sankt Interface, Linz
