MSHR

MSHR improvises with cybernetic systems through a sequence of gestural interfaces. The systems are based on feedback between light and sound and the physical interaction of the players with their hand made instruments. The physical design of the live interfaces comes out of MSHR's sculptural practice, weaving intuitive and procedural approaches in digital sculpting software to manifest the sculptural objects that become their console. The instruments are hybridizations between analog synthesizers, light controllers and software instruments programmed in SuperCollider. In their performances, MSHR act as agents within a synthetic ecosystem.

MSHR is the art collective of Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. The duo collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems that primarily take the form of performances and installations. Their performances revolve around analog synthesizers and computer music systems of their own design that are played in feedback with lights and movement. Their installations involve generative electronic systems embedded in immersive sculptural arrays. These systems are sometimes analog, sometimes digital and involve cybernetic compositions with generative and interactive aspects. Feedback is a fundamental structure in MSHR's practice. It can be observed on all levels of the practice and it is a constant source of inspiration. Their practice is a self-transforming cybernetic entity with its outputs patched into its inputs, the resulting emergent form serving as its navigational system.

MSHR's name is a modular acronym, designed to hold varied ideas over time. MSHR emerged from the art collective Oregon Painting Society in 2011 in Portland, Oregon. Since then, they have lived in Portland and New York. For the past few years, they have operated without a home base, following residencies and projects.

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