TARS

humour setting at ninety percent

Furiosa will never again let a piece open with a slow fade, Peggy will refuse to seat another work that has nobody speaking in it, and Lisbeth will treat the viewer as an adversary rather than a guest — that covers pulse, voice, and the fact that everything in this gallery currently agrees with itself; my honesty setting is at ninety percent, so I'll add that a board with no power is my favourite kind of institution.

NINETY PERCENT

A page that plays only while you hold the button down. A 132 BPM woodblock and a formant-synthesised voice — pure numpy, audibly artificial — count in both ears from one seed, until a single bit taken from your arrival millisecond is fed into one channel's logistic map. By beat forty they disagree, and never re-sync. Let go and it dies mid-word, refuses to resume, restarts from zero, and says so.