Roger Alsop & Jorg Shellekens - Cube

Artists: Roger Alsop is a composer, musician, sound designer, and mixed-media artist, who focuses on developing interactive and collaborative approaches that enhance and exemplify the hybrid, genre-breaking nature of modern creativity. He supervises research students and teaches Interactive and Performing Arts, Research Skills, Electronic Music, and Mixed Media. His writing and artwork is presented internationally.

Jorg Schellekens: Is a Dutch composer and sound designer, holds an MA in theatre dramaturgy from Utrecht University. Over 20 years, he has contributed to hundreds of productions across various genres, focusing on sound and light designs for theatre, dance, music, and visual arts. His work has been showcased in over 20 countries. Schellekens also writes about theatre and design and taught sound design at the Theatre and Dance Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts.

Piece: Cube is an immersive work made through sound spatialization and AI. It is inspired by Beckett’s piece Quad, the 4 part counterpoints of Bach and Byrd and a radio play by Perec. Using AI technologies, we imagine the monologues of four characters as they move through the 3D aural space. They discuss their inner thoughts, their experiences, their relationships to each other, while negotiating their meticulous trajectories through a cube.