HYPER MEMORIA

HYPER MEMORIA is a piece for violin, cello, electric guitar, electronics, light system, and participative audience.

Conceived as an immersive, performative installation, the work stages a fictive string recording session, plunging the audience into darkness and guiding them through the experience via a disembodied lead voice. As the session unfolds, the piece probes the tension between the musician’s artistic identity and the mechanical, depersonalized nature of their role in commercial recording contexts.

The idea for HYPER MEMORIA emerged from conversations with the ensemble about their experiences recording music for sample libraries—a process that often requires musicians to deliver hundreds of emotionless articulations, stripped of narrative, context, and personality. These discussions revealed a subtle, disquieting contradiction: the demand for "expressive" playing within a tightly constrained and repetitive system that tends to erase individuality.

By reimagining this environment through a dystopian lens, HYPER MEMORIA questions the implications of such practices on human expression, presence, and agency. The piece progressively blurs the lines between human and machine, until both are entangled in a unified, hybrid identity - no longer entirely one or the other.