Metaxanakis – Jacob Audrey Taves
Metaxanakis – Jacob Audrey Taves
Vancouver New Music Festival 2022
Metaxenakis
Celebrating the ideas and influence of Iannis Xenakis
October 21, 2022; 8pm
The Remaining Functionality of Abandoned States
Electronics: Jacob Audrey Taves
Diffusion: Giorgio Magnanensi
Systems of organization chug along as they pass their functionality, usefulness or are proven ineffective at achieving their aims. They leave behind broken bits of data, of infrastructure and of human beings while operating on automatic by people who have never met their bosses, as an algorithm or as an abandoned construct running on fumes. Unable to ever balance such fluid and complex equations as those that govern life, every system has its left behinds: the man who tunes every radio to the classic rock station; the quaint believer in the free market. In more serious terms the left behinds rot away and die, unable to access this or that because of paperwork or negotiations here or there, because of cracks in the functionality of systems that can never achieve balance. Some are left behind in the negative space between where systems of organization should meet, but don’t.
Channeling the detritus of malignant policy and organization by pushing the fractured limits of hardware and software as a metaphoric exploratory process, The Remaining Functionality of Abandoned States does not necessarily make a political statement nor raise any questions in and of itself. It builds structures from debris and chewed up, half used bits and makes itself at home in negative space. Utilizing the three dimensional and architectural qualities of sound, The Remaining Functionality of Abandoned States gives life to the metaphor by creating audible constructions from left behind errors which interpret the emotional response of being a part of many failed systems while creating a unique new and living form.
Communicating in a language of errors, hum, crackle, feedback and found sounds, composer and improviser Jacob Audrey Taves explores themes of alienation, post-industrial anxiety and the push and pull between macro and micro social, political and sonic frameworks. Utilizing the fragile nature of malfunctioning equipment and exposing unintentional audio artifacts, Taves’ work gives errors room to develop and to have voices of their own in an emotive, free-form structure.
Videography by Mingtao Kong
Audio recording by Dan Kibke
Video and audio editing Heather McDermid
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