Stable Confusion
- Soft Centre, White Bay Powerstation
Wangal & Gadigal Country (Sydney) - 2025
A live performance between Worlds Only and Junior Major. As the band plays, AI visuals react in real time to sound and spoken word, while Junior Major edits the code live to try and reverse what the AI has learned to do.
The aim is to trick what the system hears and sees, twisting sound and language into the unexpected. A live contest between human instinct and machine logic, where no two moments are ever the same.
Technology
Built in TouchDesigner, the performance runs across two networked PCs. Vocal feeds are split through a custom JFET pedal and processed with Whisper AI for live transcription. Video content passes through Stable Diffusion, layered with generative effects controlled by MIDI.
The result is a real-time dialogue between sound, data and image, a system that learns, listens and responds in the moment.
Credits
- Arantxa Uria, Art Direction
- Claire Evans, Business Director
- Evan Davies, Technical Lead (Hardware)
- Jarrod Lambert, Technical Coordinator
- Jordan East, Touch Designer Developer
- René Christen, Technical Lead (Software)
- Shunji Davies, Project Director
- Sophie Penkethman-Young, Producer
- Tom Siddall, Creative Director
- Worlds Only, Music