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The Sick Sense, Part 2: The Seventh Sense

approx. 25 minutes

The Sick Sense, Part 2 is an audio-visual system comprising banks of sine waves, each of which corresponds to a grid displayed on the screen. Various parameters of the sine wave, such as pitch, amplitude, and harmonicity control the size, position, and color of the grid. As the sine waves evolve through different structural patterns, the grids phase and overlap in patterns that push the perceptual system to its limits.

Synopsis:

Wherein, while seeking the annihilation of the self at the boundaries of the perceptual system through a mechanism comprising grid patterns controlled by banks of sine waves, we discover otoacoustic and flicker phenomena—auditory and visual hallucinations which deactivate the brain's default mode network (DMN), resulting in the ecstatic euphoria usually reserved for the beatific.

Note on the documentation excerpts below: This is a live performance. Due to limitations of frame rate and video-capture resolution, capturing high-quality detailed documentation of the performance for streaming preview is not possible. The documentation is quite muddy when dealing with areas of detail, and sections of the projects dealing with intense flicker phenomena are not well-represented. Certain auditory phenomena only occur at high volume and without headphones.
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