AUM MODE
Theme: research of vibrations within the electronic non-human body.
Method: performance by smartphone; generative resynthesized in Pure Data mantra AUM and video accompaniment, launched using the internal resources of the smartphone, ~ 10 min/session.
Concept: Resynthesis of the AUM mantra based on the recording of the voice of Manouso Manos - certified B.K.S. Iyengar, a senior yoga teacher, while maintaining the symbolic tripartite structure. As in yoga, here the mantra is used to emphasize the transitional state, changing direction of attention inwards. Such a transition for a single electronic body, a smartphone, can be imagined as disconnection from the networks. This kind of practice is also an action allocates resourses carefully for both human and non-human agents.
