About the projectIt began with a question: can you hear a bifurcation?

Inspired by the strange regularities hidden in everyday motion—walking data, fruit market customer patterns, the syncopation of life—we set out to build something that made this idea not only visible, but audible.

The result was a one-knob MIDI controller built with a Teensy board, a single LED, and a lot of Amsterdam-winter-fueled obsession. It controlled a VCV Rack patch driven by the Feigen module and a chaotic cascade of samplers, LFOs, and logic modules. Each twist of the knob altered the bifurcation rate (r), changing everything from sample playback position to drum rhythm and CV modulation. On the wall, white squares flickered into view—plotting the logistic map in real time.

The setup was minimal: a hand-built panel lodged into a repurposed door sign, a laptop running the generative patch, and sound bleeding into the corner of an L-shaped wall known as 2 Walls. Eight sections on the plot corresponded to individual drum hits—if a dot landed in a zone, it triggered a sound. Snare, kick, hi-hat: order hidden in the scatter.

Exhibition StatementObsession for predictability has us yearning for regularities. We strive to fit our dance within an order, yet the tune that guides our steps pulses with an irregular beat. This doesn't imply our folly. In the end, we all but concentrated set of order that otherwise would decay into atomic chaos.

Irregular Vibrations (IV) is an interactive audio-visual experiment. It combines a sound design and visuals that are generated out of the formula of bifurcation. The place where the next white square will appear depends on a flip of its internal coin but somehow it remains in a boundary that carves a pattern. Interaction rests within a simple knob connected directly to the heart of the bifurcation's rate. Puts you at a point of self-reference, predicting the unfolding rhythm of what's to come.