CtrlKey

Through CtrlKey, Konnekt puts the latest digital technologies at the service of innovative artistic creations that can bring many art forms into dialogue with each other, while giving a poetic existence to non-artistic elements and practices. Thanks to this constantly evolving tool, Konnekt hopes to reach a wide audience while addressing the various artistic communities seeking innovation.

Developed on the Supercollider environment, CtrlKey is an evolving mapping tool designed to produce performance systems controlled by the instrumental gesture, or by any type of musical or extra-musical data. CtrlKey can be extended across a network to create ‘electro-instruments’ forming multiple nodes, which incorporate different control sources and output engines. In this way, CtrlKey is able to :

-'listen' and interact with all kinds of input, such as data generated by instrumental gesture, movement, or any type of extra-musical source.

• control multiple virtual or physical elements present throughout the network, such as audio synthesis, video, lighting, or any machine that can be connected to the network.

CtrlKey thus serves as a framework and/or basis for many types of artistic creation, particularly by bringing together/dialoguing several different media and practices.

About network capacities :

CtrlKey uses the capabilities of the DANTE (Digital Audio Network Through Ethernet) network, which allows audio and digital data to be transmitted over a single Ethernet cable, making it easy to link connected devices together. This makes it possible to:

• Generate and transmit control information simultaneously between multiple users, be it audio, lights, or any other device/software capable of receiving control information.

• Be able to communicate and interact between users (musicians or others) equipped with CtrlKey, in a real dialogue. Each user transmits data generated by his or her system, giving access to a multitude of interactions within performances, improvisations, written music or interactive installations.

SELECTED PROJETCTS

• "More Other Tongue" Modular pattern-based composition

• High Zero Festival September 2023 & September 2024 (Baltimore), augmented instrumental performances.

• FCF, Le Groove, May 2023.

• Luminiferous Aeather, April 2023, sound and light immersive piece.

• Festival Archipel - Re-Ghoster Extended, April 2023

• Composition for extended clavichord with haut-parleur 3D IKO, Thomas Florin and Gerriet K. Sharma (IKO creator )

• Electroacoustic trio with Jeff Carey (electronics), Nicolas Field (drums + CtrlKey) and Thomas Florin (piano and clavicorde + CtrlKey). Supported by Pro Helvetia, this working period was concluded by a public performance at Fonderie Kugler (Geneva) in May 2022.

QUELQUES PROJETS EN COURS DE CONCEPTION

• "Shed Some Light" multi-sensory creation project

• "Qui CtrlKey?", Installation project for young audiences