Residència Dinàmica with System Polylog

This post gathers fragments from the dynamic residency held at La Central del Circ during two phases (September 2021 and January 2022). The framework was clear: to open the research process and relate it to other disciplines, without the pressure of producing a finished format. The goal was to test systems, but in real conditions, with all that implies: limited time, mobile equipment, intuitions not yet fully formed.

The project revolves around the idea of a generative system applied to live arts. Not just as a technological tool, but as a structure that connects various inputs: movement, light, sound, visual interfaces. We’re interested in observing how these connections can transform stage writing, and how they can open up new ways of being on stage—more situated, less fixed.

Understanding the Lights

During the first phase, we focused on the relationships between juggling movement, lights, and music. No dramaturgy, no narrative, just observing what kind of response the system generated when working with open parameters. The work was very physical, very trial-and-error. We used sensors, basic light control, and a reactive sound system that was still unstable, but already hinted at certain directions. The video below shows part of those first explorations:

Working with Generative Visuals

In the second phase we continued working with the elements we had already opened: sound, light, movement, and generative visuals. Hydra, which we had started exploring, was added here as another layer in the system. With the support of Flor de Fuego, we tested how this visual synthesis environment could respond to movement and generate real-time images that carried weight on their own, as another output format of the project.

This week’s video is a sample of that stage in the process. It has no fixed structure or defined dramaturgy, but it shows how the system’s different parts begin to interact. We wanted the system itself to describe what it does, through what it does.

Credits

Juggling, music & editing: Dídac Gilabert
Generative visuals: Flor de Fuego
Video recording & editing: Teresa Santos

The system is still not closed. We continue working to open and share it—not as a finished piece, but as an interactive environment.

If you’re interested in collaborating or testing it, feel free to write us.