Superimposition

'Superimposition' is an extended, lyrical, computer-based performance piece. The central conceit is to treat the laptop screen (projected for the audience) as a space of lyrical expression.

Combining livecoding, audio synthesis, and pastiche, Mara MacDonald will be creating an extended ambient improvisation live, displaying the audio software and various videos (both found online and filmed personally) as the piece develops. The generative software used for the audio will be slowly transformed and updated as the videos play. There will also be a vocal element, with singing processed with extensive effects to create otherworldly textures. The piece’s location, a glass-walled empty storefront in central Footscray, has the hauntological wisp of vaporwave, of machines and objects with lives all their own.

Evoking the mystery and isolation of late night internet browsing, the piece is a mediation on what it means to be young and unformed on the internet, of rabbit holes and the personal theatres of cruelty we all now live with, as a necessity for survival.