fuck la monde

Sinden light gun, voice, and ensemble · ongoing series

Research question — what happens to a game controller's built-in violence when it is asked to behave like an instrument, in front of an audience that cannot look away?

A series of pieces built around the Sinden light gun — a screen-pointing controller borrowed from arcade shooting games — placed in the hands of concert musicians. Aiming is a musical action here: the gun tracks where a performer points, and that position drives sound. The gesture is unmistakable, and that is the point. It carries everything an audience already knows about pointing a weapon into a room where people are listening.

The series responds to the present: division, escalation, spectacle, and how easily violence becomes something we watch. Each chapter takes a different ensemble and a different distance from the audience, and I number them to keep the series open rather than closed.