WAKE is a live audiovisual duo performing a hybrid live-coded, hypnotic, eclectic fusion of original, cinematic electronic music and pulsating beats with live keyboards and realtime visuals, revealing a flirtatious symbiosis between the ranges of human emotional experience and computer code.
Lena Kilkka /lucid/ attempts to musically translate her own human dreamworld realities via code with TidalCycles and SuperCollider, synthesizing a playful yet powerfully dark, dystopian rhythmic journey. Thomas Mann /pixtur/ uses TiXL (formerly Tooll3), his own custom-developed, open-source framework for crafting elaborate live visuals, to create and orchestrate sensory stimulating visuals whose nuances are steered by lucid’s audio signal data.
WAKE is Berlin-based. Pixtur and lucid have been creating award-winning audiovisual artworks together for over 15 years and have deep roots in the demoscene, a long-standing, international computer-arts subculture recently recognized as a UNESCO cultural heritage.