FEEDBACK LOOP OF A FEEDBACK LOOP…, by Spencer Bambrick
Feedback Loop… is a deep listening memory game about listening and playing. Anyone, musical or non-musical, performer or audience member, can play and enjoy it. Throughout the performance players will improvise short musical ideas or “loops.” One at a time players will enter, playing loops together. As each player enters, they then add a new idea to the end of the loop. Over time, the resulting texture becomes more intricate and cacophonous, like the structure of a feedback loop.
Spencer Bambrick is a composer, author, educator, and electronic artist. His creative practice is rooted in videogames where player agency is used as a means of generating structure and deriving meaning in his work. Spa{ce}ialization is a recent interactive videogame, premiered at Berklee College of Music in a multi-channel performance space, that explores this theme. Spencer often infuses social and political issues in his concert work. These themes of interactivity and social impact are crucial aspects of the work Spencer continues to create.