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Performing his most recent album Continuum, Bristol-based producer and co-founder of the Subtext label Paul Jebanasam collaborates with Dutch artist Tarik Barri, who is renowned for his live visuals for Thom Yorke and Monolake. Inspired by the poetics of energy and living matter’s eternal resistance to entropy, Continuum A/V explores the compositional space of synthetic audio and visual materials that are pushed to limits of technological possibilities. The live performance of the work centres on customised software developed by Barri to enable improvised constructions of complex, simulated environments. Traditionally the domain of high-performance supercomputing, this practice applies physical models to create immersive investigations of the structure of light. Parallel to this process, Jebanasam’s compositions re-imagine the concert space as a vast architectural instrument, based on the acoustic designs of church organs and driven by a bold vision for machined music.