QUANTUM SOUP ORCHESTRA
... organised chaos by
Simon Le Boggit
Simon Le Boggit is a UK based multimedia artist currently focusing on distillation of “meaning” from chaos. His work has included the creation of evocatively mesmeric videos and algorithmic music teetering on the edge of chaos – where any melody, harmony and syncopation are a product of chance and the human compulsion to identify patterns.
Simon is especially interested in finding statistical sweet-spots where chaos and repetition (and sometimes mutation) may evoke moments of “apparent intentionality”, which feel like they must have been specifically engineered by a sentient creator rather than be a product of non-sentient chance.
Rather than following the virtual herd as it stampedes towards ever more complex AI (Artificial Intelligence), Simon has sought to head in the opposite direction in pursuit of AATAPS (Artificially As Thick As Pig-Shit). Just how simple can a mindless system get, while still creating sounds which (some) people will regard as music? And what happens when chaotic music sets the context for random motion, and vice versa?
Simon’s audio-visual compositions have been performed and shown in exhibitions and art festivals around the world including Lincoln, London, Edinburgh, Swansea, Manchester, Bath, Stockholm, Athens, Barcelona, Seoul, Vancouver and New York.
simon.le.boggit@hotmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/SimonLeBoggit
quantumsouporchestra.weebly.com
Simon is especially interested in finding statistical sweet-spots where chaos and repetition (and sometimes mutation) may evoke moments of “apparent intentionality”, which feel like they must have been specifically engineered by a sentient creator rather than be a product of non-sentient chance.
Rather than following the virtual herd as it stampedes towards ever more complex AI (Artificial Intelligence), Simon has sought to head in the opposite direction in pursuit of AATAPS (Artificially As Thick As Pig-Shit). Just how simple can a mindless system get, while still creating sounds which (some) people will regard as music? And what happens when chaotic music sets the context for random motion, and vice versa?
Simon’s audio-visual compositions have been performed and shown in exhibitions and art festivals around the world including Lincoln, London, Edinburgh, Swansea, Manchester, Bath, Stockholm, Athens, Barcelona, Seoul, Vancouver and New York.
simon.le.boggit@hotmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/SimonLeBoggit
quantumsouporchestra.weebly.com
Exhibitionism
Artwork: INSIDE THE BELL TOWER by Simon Le Boggit
Description: an algorithmically composed piece of music for multiple bells and chimes – effectively creating a gigantic virtual bell with the audience inside it – with the various sounds shared across an array of 146 loudspeakers inside the four storey high Cube black-box theatre. The music itself was created algorithmically, with massed ranks of random number generators determining the pitch and timing of each note / chime.
Event: Cubefest at The Cube, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Description: an algorithmically composed piece of music for multiple bells and chimes – effectively creating a gigantic virtual bell with the audience inside it – with the various sounds shared across an array of 146 loudspeakers inside the four storey high Cube black-box theatre. The music itself was created algorithmically, with massed ranks of random number generators determining the pitch and timing of each note / chime.
Event: Cubefest at The Cube, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Artwork: DILATION by Simon Le Boggit
Description: abstract CGI animation accompanied by algorithmically generated music projected onto the façade of Salamanca Town Hall, Spain. Everything seen and heard is randomly created from pure chaos and repetition. Both vision and sound are the product of Simon Le Boggit’s desire to illustrate how complex forms and patterns may spontaneously emerge by chance, out of nothingness!
Event: finalist in Luz y Vanguardias (Light and Avant Garde) festival, Salamanca, Spain,13th June 2019.
Event: finalist in Luz y Vanguardias (Light and Avant Garde) festival, Salamanca, Spain,13th June 2019.
Artwork: DISLOCATION by Simon Le Boggit
Description: Simon Le Boggit’s musical response after reading the powerful award winning book No Friend But The Mountains by writer / refugee / detainee Behrouz Boochani. Its running time of 2101 seconds (35 minutes) symbolises Behrouz’s 2101 days (six years) of imprisonment on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, with each passing second representing an entire day of incarceration. The strange choir has been created by electronically stretching and contorting sound samples of Behrouz’s own voice, recorded inside Manus Prison while he sang a love song.
Event: Dislocation received its public premiere on 24th April 2019, during There’s No Place Like Home – a three day event held at Mansions Of The Future, Lincoln, UK - to promote understanding of the plight of refugees.
Event: Dislocation received its public premiere on 24th April 2019, during There’s No Place Like Home – a three day event held at Mansions Of The Future, Lincoln, UK - to promote understanding of the plight of refugees.
Simon Le Boggit (composer) with Behrouz Boochani (author / refugee / detainee) and Hoda Afshar (photographer / videomaker)
- three artists attempting to shed light on the plight of demonised and tortured asylum seekers.
- three artists attempting to shed light on the plight of demonised and tortured asylum seekers.
Artwork: THE TRANSIENCE OF NOW by Simon Le Boggit
Theme: If the present distorts memory of the past, and the past provides context for the present... where lies Truth?
Description: algorithmically generated music and video, for string quartet.
Event: Visions of Science Art Prize Exhibition, Andrew Brownsword Gallery, The Edge, University of Bath, UK in September-October 2018.
Theme: If the present distorts memory of the past, and the past provides context for the present... where lies Truth?
Description: algorithmically generated music and video, for string quartet.
Event: Visions of Science Art Prize Exhibition, Andrew Brownsword Gallery, The Edge, University of Bath, UK in September-October 2018.
