Machine Yearning is the title of the audio-visual album that explores a fictional near-future world
through the eyes of an unnamed extra-terrestrial technological entity. The project also showcases a
shift in my practice and the way I develop audio-visual work, serving the role of documenting an
experimental stage in my creation process. While in the past my audio-visual sets have consisted of
purely improvisational performances utilising eurorack format modular synthesisers (both audio
and video synthesisers, usually with the video synthesisers reacting to the audio via control voltages).
Machine Yearning is instead more of a produced, studio album that consists of a varied, experimental
approach using a multitude of AI technologies in conjunction with audio-reactive softwares
like TouchDesigner to create the visuals, and cybernetic patching combined with manually
played elements to create the music. Machine Yearning explores the concept of the ‘uncanny valley’
originally coined by Mori in 1970. The album aims to explore content that blurs the lines between
the real, the unreal and the constantly expanding realm that exists in-between the two.