An interactive music software originally designed to interact with input from a live performer is instead made to ‘listen’ to itself. A chaotic musical feedback loop results as the system attempts to respond to its own output.

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What If was realized at the Luscar Studio of The Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Alberta) in August, 1990.

Composition

• August 1990, Luscar Studio — The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff (Alberta, Canada)

Premiere

• November 2, 1990, Montréal musiques actuelles / New Music America, Acousmonium: Concert 6: Électro clips, Théâtre Les Loges, Montréal (Québec)