Liquid Architecture and MESS present an Artist talk from MSHR (Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper). Their work enacts a synthetic ecosystem of light, handbuilt sculptural electronics, software systems and visual density. The tactile and digital mesh together within an improvised structure of light and sound, creating a synaesthetic electronic experience. Sculptural approaches to building instruments and live interfaces are fed by digital sculpting software to become a console whereby intuition and procedure are interwoven. This rich hybrid practice brings echoes of the ecstatic into electronics.

MSHR (Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy) collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems that primarily take the form of performances and installations. Since forming in 2011, their performances revolve around analog synthesizers and computer music systems of their own design, played in feedback with lights and movement. Their installations involve generative electronic systems embedded in immersive sculptural arrays, using interaction as a variable. Feedback is a fundamental structure in MSHR's practice. 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 emerged from the art collective Oregon Painting Society in Portland, Oregon. Since then, they have lived in Portland and New York, and recently without a home base, following residencies and projects.