Copyright 2001-2023

Coherent system for generation and control of chaotic dynamics.

Cabotronium is a digitally controlled analog generator of audio/video complexity.
It is named after the ‘Cabotron’ - the brandname of the old mixers that we transform into synthesizer through circuit-bending.

The main characteristic of the Cabotronium is the impossibility of having a total control on the process of the signal generation. The feedback loop inside the circuit involves an intrinsic instability of the signal, which tends to modulate even if the parameters of its electronic components are kept constant.
The act of “playing” the Cabotronium is not an inflected form of the mechanistic paradigm, which is based on the causal nexus. Thus, there is no constant and fixed relation between the player’s gesture and the sound/image which follows. In a complex system like the circuit-bent mixer, a linear variation of a parameter does not produce a corresponding linear variation of the signal: Cabotron is a singularities generator that is not subdued to the control of the performer.

project developed with Martino Sarolli and Alessandro Quaranta.