The MACHINE is an immersive exploration of emotional tension, where strangeness teases curiosity, evoking both desire and discomfort. The music and visuals constantly dance on the edge of emotion—never shocking, never dull, yet always unsettling. You find yourself searching for meaning, grasping for something to hold on to, only to have it slip away. It’s an experience designed to confuse, to intrigue, and to leave you questioning, forever chasing a sense of understanding that remains just out of reach.
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A Scared Pilot is a French audio and visual artist who creates immersive, real-time experiences through generative music and dynamic visuals. Using software-based modular patches, A Scared Pilot triggers elements of a 3D world that evolve alongside the music. The visuals, synchronized with the sound, move and shift in rhythm, creating a captivating interplay between sight and sound. The music itself is composed by code, constantly regenerating, ensuring that no performance is ever the same.
In live shows, A Scared Pilot manipulates both audio and visuals in real time, offering audiences a one-of-a-kind experience where art and technology converge into something organic and unpredictable.
This interplay between generative sound and reactive visuals becomes a living organism, unique to each performance and moment.
THE MAKING
The Visual
Unity software is typically used for creating video games, but in this case, it’s being used to craft a piece of art. While it incorporates game assets, they are reassembled in unconventional and expressive ways to serve the artistic concept’s purpose.
The Sound
All the music is generated in real time from Axoloti, a small circuit board, with all the beats and synths programmed according to specific rules.
The Code
A custom software, coded from scratch using Cycling74 Max, was specifically created for this piece of art. It synchronizes the music with the 3D environment, allowing real-time manipulation of every element.
The Machine in situation
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The audience faces a large screen where the visual world of The Machine unfolds in real time. Two speakers, placed on either side, deliver the immersive generative music. The artist stands off to the side, live-triggering both visual and musical elements—subtly manipulating the environment and evolving the experience as it happens.
OTHER PIECES BY A SCARED PILOT
The Light
The Light explores the chaos of a city driven by ambition and blind productivity. In this generative piece, men wander through an urban landscape without direction—rushing forward, optimizing everything, yet overlooking everyone. The work is built as a real-time 3D scene paired with a generative music patch. It runs autonomously on a computer, making it ideal for installation on a screen with speakers, looping endlessly as urban life loops in endless repetition.
Toh delves into the tension between desire and reverence. It explores a society that worships the female body—driven by longing, yet ultimately powerless in the face of the grandeur and mystery of femininity. The piece reflects a world captivated by form, but incapable of grasping the depth it represents.
Thousand Oaks symbolizes the stubbornness and relentlessness of hard work—pushing forward with determination, often without fully understanding the purpose or destination. It reflects the struggle of perseverance in the face of uncertainty.
A Scared Pilot is a French audio and visual artist who creates immersive, real-time experiences through generative music and dynamic visuals. Using software-based modular patches, A Scared Pilot triggers elements of a 3D world that evolve alongside the music. The visuals, synchronized with the sound, move and shift in rhythm, creating a captivating interplay between sight and sound. The music itself is composed by code, constantly regenerating, ensuring that no performance is ever the same.
