Scrypt

Scrypt is inspired by the historical use of animal hides and body parts in creating musical instruments and parchment. Merging the aesthetics of pagan rituals with modern crypto technology, the work blends performative music and installation art.

 

In the piece, a percussionist wears a sculptural apparatus crafted from rawhide and parchment. Serving as both instrument and score, the skins are stretched across wire frames and attached to the performer's body with hooks and nail extensions. These surfaces are amplified and played percussively. As the performer interprets a parchment mapped to their limbs and extensions, they partake in an algorithmic ritual - a choreography that transforms the augmented body into both reader and resonator.

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Scrypt utilizes a symmetrical and rotatable notation system that shapes the music according to the gestures and position of the performer.

 

Named after the cryptographic algorithm, Scrypt examines the use of natural materials and symbols in shaping identity, whether through shamanic transformation or digital concealment.