[Texto disponible solo en inglés] "Magnitude — Do Machines Have Wet Dreams?" is a 30-minute live audiovisual performance for two performers exploring perception, repetition, and digital overstimulation. At its centre is a self-built mechanical apparatus in continuous motion, filmed live from multiple perspectives using two cameras. Alongside the continuous video signal, live photography of the apparatus is captured and fed back into the performance as visual input. Moving and still images become the raw material for an evolving visual composition.
Pre-recorded microscopic footage of sand and grains extends this process of transformation, tracing a movement from particles and visual “clouds” toward transparency and clarity. Sonically, the first part of the performance follows this journey between grains and clouds through granular synthesis, atmospheric textures, and live effects. A collage of voices gradually accumulates into a dense wall of sound, which eventually collapses under its own weight. From this rupture, overlapping and arrhythmic textures emerge, their internal sequences developing and competing for dominance.
This deconstruction is followed by an episode of greater clarity. Contact and EMF microphones attached to the mechanical apparatus become prominent live sound sources, feeding its physical movement and electromagnetic activity into digital effects. A mechanical pulse with a deliberately unstable, chaotic quality is joined by structuring and driving sequences from drum machines, bringing the machine itself to the foreground both visually and sonically.
The performance gradually reverses its own logic of accumulation. What begins as an excess of images, perspectives, voices, textures, and sound is progressively deconstructed and reduced. By the final act, the mechanical object—previously obscured by its digital representations—becomes clearly visible. The sound opens into a quieter, almost resonant space of slowly morphing harmonies, creating a sense of vastness and suspension, with distant associations of whales inhabiting a liminal space. Magnitude asks what remains when the continuous multiplication of information is stripped away, and whether clarity and subjective perception can re-emerge from digital noise.
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