Live at Indexical, Santa Cruz, Sept 2023
























M S H R
Mesh Manifold



Live at LOM, Bratislava, 2024, photo by Simon Luptak


Mesh Manifold is a live sound-sculpture composition by the duo MSHR, consisting of a multitude of devices in a complex and unruly feedback system of sound and light. Developed over the course of a summer residency in Santa Cruz, California, Mesh Manifold introduces a fresh population of autonomous sculptural entities, cohabiting across simulated and substantial substrates.

The resonating bodies contain custom-built electrical circuits with sensors and amplifiers that emit and respond to signals rippling throughout the system. The entities converse through these physical connections as well as engaging with an invisible software canopy inscribed across the terrain through various programming languages.

As elements of the system themselves, MSHR move throughout the sculptural array, adjusting the waveform micro-climates while modulating their own decisions in response to the unpredictable audiovisual results of their active presence. The entities and agents together form a babbling biome for electrical current, cultivating a life-like chorus from inert components.

Mesh Manifold was commissioned by Indexical and The Lab, with in-kind support from the Arts Council of Santa Cruz County and Idea Fab Labs, Santa Cruz.

-Text by MSHR and Andrew Smith of The Lab / Indexical





Live in Live in Ljubljana, Feb 7, 2024 at Osmo/za, organized by FriFormA\V + NIANSA, photo by Ursa Rahne, video by Saso Puckovski



Live in Helsinki, organized by Outo Olo, Feb 9, 2024, photo by Antti Ahonen


Live at The Lab, San Francisco, clips by Grux, Full vids HERE



LIVE PERFORMANCES OF MESH MANIFOLD:

2023.9.29-30 INDEXICAL, SANTA CRUZ
2023.10.5 THE LAB, SAN FRANCISCO
2023.12.9 PERFORMENSK FESTIVAL, STUTTGART
2023.12.14 RELLO/BASTL, BRNO
2024.1.11 KRAAK, BRUSSELS
2024.1.12 INSTITUTE OF SONOLOGY, THE HAGUE
2024.1.26 Terén, BRNO
2024.1.27 FOLYéKONY MáSHOL, BUDAPEST
2024.2.3 LOM, BRATISLAVA
2024.2.7 FRIFORMA\V + NIANSA + OSMO/ZA, LJUBLJANA
2024.2.9 OUTO OLO + KULTTUURITILA MERIRASTI, HELSINKI
2024.2.27 KET, ATHENS
2024.2.29 XING, BOLOGNA
2024.3.2 WURM, BASEL
2024.3.7 TUARON LAB, KATOWICE
2024.4.18 DROPCITY + HUNDEBISS, MILAN


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Live at The Lab, San Francisco, Oct 5 2023, Photos by Robert Divers Herrick