After the performance of ECOSYSTEM1 at The Norbert Wiener Memorial Feedback Orchestra's inaugural event, we invited the audience to come and play the unstable feedback system. To our surprise they were very enthusiastic, engaging in free play with noise.

The voice at the beginning belongs to Xavier Blasco, one of the pilots in the Orchestra this time, and is the last remark from a discussion we had with the audience after the previous performance.

Post Performance Participation 1

The first performance of The Norbert Wiener Memorial Feedback Orchestra, playing an unstable system of feedback loops interconnected between the players.

Pilots:
Cha Blasco
Valter Nordqvist
Barrie James Sutcliffe
Patricia Vane
Richard Widerberg

Performed live December 7, 2014 at Skogen in Göteborg, Sweden. This was the final presentation of a two-day participatory event, the first day comprising of a hike in an old growth forest, the second a day indoors working with unstable systems.

ECOSYSTEM1

Recorded live at the home of Markus Nordgren, December 13, 2014 in front of an audience who had just arrived from an hour long forest walk. Performed as part of Koloni's day-long Lucia festival in Bottna and Gerlesborg, Bohuslän, Sweden.

Pilots: Valter Nordqvist, Barrie James Sutcliffe, and Richard Widerberg

Thanks to: Markus, Christian Pallin, Olle Huge

Recorded and mixed by Barrie from a single live stereo recording. There are plenty of dynamics here—use your volume control.

ECOSYSTEM2

In-studio rehearsal session Feb 25 2015 in preparation for performance at the Geiger Festival, Gothenburg, on Feb 28th. This time with more speakers and even transducers. Recorded with stereo room mics.

Cha Blasco: Feedback
Valter Nordqvist: Feedback, transducer percussion
Barrie James Sutcliffe: Feedback
Richard Widerberg: Feedback, transducer percussion
Patricia Vane: Feedback

ECOSYSTEM3 Rehearsal

The Norbert Wiener Memorial Feedback Orchestra is an unstable ecosystem, networks of electricity and movement which achieve precarious balance before collapsing into ever new orders. Through chaotic control and feedback we achieve harmony and complexity. The Orchestra is a participatory performance, opening up to new controllers in order to promote biodiversity and communication.

NWMFO is a dynamic noise group focused on raw analog feedback, directed primarily by artists Barrie James Sutcliffe and Richard Widerberg, with an open roster of performers.

Norbert Wiener

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