BROKEN ROOMS
Broken Rooms is an immersive audio experience that was featured
in the parallel program of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2017. This project marked our first endeavor as a collective, exploring the spontaneous emergence of chaos, order, and their interflow.
in the parallel program of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2017. This project marked our first endeavor as a collective, exploring the spontaneous emergence of chaos, order, and their interflow.
The project is rooted in field-recordings:the hum of evening traffic jams, the eerie quiet of a subway station before midnight, the lively echoes from a sunlit basketball court in a dormitory area, the raw, unrefined strains of a beginner cellist in a street underpass, and the melodic chimes of the bell tower from snow-covered Red Square.
This experiment functions like a vast orchestra or a conveyor belt, where each element plays a small but crucial role. Over 300 random generators work in unison: one slices incoming audio into fragments ranging from milliseconds to several minutes, another arranges these pieces into rhythmic sequences, a third transforms a sound snippet into a tune, while a fourth adds sporadic sound effects like an unusual, prolonged echo.
Most of the time, this intricate network produces nothing more than a mildly interesting noise. However, there are moments when it seems to discover inspiration, crafting sound patterns of astonishing beauty and complexity.
At the exibition opening event, we assigned this process the roles of both conductor and lead musician. We began to play along with it, That moment defined our entire aesthetic and approach to work. That's how the band and the name Broken Composers came into being.