Partíja / The Game
Interactive sound installation, 2017
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Concept: Matej Stupica, Jaka Berger and Andraž Magajna
Mechanisms design: Matej Stupica
MIDI score: Jaka Berger
PCB design and programming: Brane Ždralo
Programming: Matic Potočnik
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How does the tension between playing freely and playing according to a strict set of rules, competition and unpredictability, arbitrariness and improvisation sound like?
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The Game is an interactive sound installation merging the features and principles of card playing (Rummy), instrument playing and musical improvisation into a temporary performative situation. The Game’s system uses a digital interface to translate information gathered in the course of a card game into a command score, which prescribes the way differingly designed motors play on piano strings and shape a unique space for playing music in the structure of a table game.
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The multi-layered design of the project puts participants into two distinct roles: he either partakes in the performative situation as a listener who follows the game and the music dictated by the game, or actively participates in the gameplay and becomes a part of this (un)predictable interactive sound situation.
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Curator: Lenka Đorojević
Production: Ljudmila Lab (Tina Dolinšek) and Projekt Atol Institute (Uroš Veber)
Special thanx: Dan Adlešič, Johannes Lohbihler, Miha Zupan, Martin Lovšin Schintr, Bojan Stefanović, Miha Kelemina, Klemen Glej and Jaka Mihelič.
https://wiki.ljudmila.org/Partíja
Exhibited in OSMO/ZA, Ljubljana, 2017
Foto: Katja Goljat