Luc Döbereiner

Small Worlds deals with how events in networks can create emergent structures. The four musicians are coupled together, listening to each other and following rules that determine when they play and when they pause. These rules come from a cellular automaton that generates periodic oscillations. Without directly intending it, the musicians thus create formal patterns. However, as they also make their own decisions about the material and have differently long breaths, the periodicity is broken, disturbed, and shifts. In addition, there is the level of the electronics, which also consists of four sound sources that are harmonically attracted to the sounds of one saxophone each, while repelling each other. We experience a complex system made up of simple rules, whose richness of structural and sonic results springs from its sensitivity to disturbances.