Benedigt Heigle

In 3D particle synthesis, particle systems can be used to generate large amounts of sound objects in virtual-acoustic space. With this method it is possible to simulate complex, realistic spatial sound scenes.

With a study for twelve particle systems, Benedikt Heigle investigates the question of how to express the fundamental difference between compositional form and sound material within a composition with this sound-generating method. The question of difference refuses the assumption of immediate identity between subject and object and is decisive for the possibility of individuality in the system.
At the same time, it is the starting point for the critique of the functionalization of art, for example in political art. Political art, insofar as here, through the assumption of the sameness of art and positivist and positivist statements, the autonomy of art disappears and the constraint under which the individual stands in the system is denied. Art thus becomes what it does not want to be, even in the political version: a mere affirmative reconstruction of the existing.