On 14. May we had the first talk in our series “Open Feedback Loop”. Our guest was Dario Sanfilippo, presenting (live from Sicily!) his ideas about autonomous complex systems in sound. We talked about emergence, the edges of chaos – how many edges does it have? – about the role of the composer-creator as “gardener”…
In one of our first brainstorming sessions (I believe around December 2020) we noticed that ‘autonomous systems’ are often described using the prefix ‘self-‘: self-organization, self-regulation, self-observation, self-referentiality, self-adaptation, self-sensing, self-performing, self-generating, self-determining. That’s how we decided to experiment with the term: maybe the word ‘self’ can provide an altered access to ideas of autonomy,…