LCM - Signal Quest (2020)

LCM is a Minneapolis/Oakland-based project between Lynn Avery, Cole Pulice and Mitch Stahlmann. It focuses on playable networks structured in hardware, software, and electro-acoustic processing that are intended to connect, record, and react as an organism. Signal Quest is a final rendering of fantastical planes that spontaneously emerged through a summer practice in 2019. The resulting play is for the listener to immerse oneself within; perhaps as an avatar, or as a sprite floating through interconnected portals and viewports.

Strong influences arose from the responsive sound design aesthetic of JRPGs and their shifting sonic environments. LCM’s compositional approach intends to illustrate a potentially liveable place; a glimpse into a biomechanical snowglobe; hallucinations and holograms seen through mist; fractals of worlds within worlds within worlds within worlds . . .