Ghostwriter

(2018)

Anthony T. Marasco & Chase Mitchusson - coding (MaxMSP, network design, JavaScript), sound design, composition

Ghostwriter is a piece for laptop trio. Two live performers improvise music, poetry, and conversation with an unmanned computer. The code and prose are collected on the unmanned computer and projected to the audience. Throughout the performance, all three computers engage in live-coding, synthesizer madness through the use of Gibberwocky, MaxMSP, and a custom Node server, even going as far as to control the unmanned machine (until it decides to start making its own decisions) through the use of automated scripts. Or it could be haunted (there's a very real possibility that it may, in fact, be haunted).