Persistent Disequilibrium is an ongoing project by the group Pixels/Frames/Beats/Drones (Øyvind Brandtsegg, Tijs Ham, Trond Lossius, Piya Wanthiang, Jeremy Welsh). The project builds upon an artist residency, workshop and performance at Surnadal Billag as part of Billag Festival in 2021. In November 2022 the group convened once again at Surnadal Billag to start production on the next phase of the project, which will be premiered at Møre og Romsdal Art Centre, Molde, in March 2023, with a performance and exhibition. The project explores feedback, circularity, layering, repetition and an accumulation of layers in sound, image, material and space. The main activities in the latest workshop revolved around working with rheoscopic fluids, excited by sound waves through the use of transducers and contact microphones, and recording the images and sound produced in video and digital audio. A second strand involved working with plastic foils, electric fans, video projection and modular sound synthesis. And in addition a "painting" was created on watercolour paper by vibrating pigments, powders, grains and liquids on its surface, by using transducers.
The next phase of the project involves refining and editing recorded materials and preparing elements of the installation that will be the centre of the installation and performance in March 2023.
