Matteo Ruggiero / sxilence
Black wheel cap instrument with flames from The App Whisperer.

modular sound performance / live performance / 2026

The App Whisperer

A modular live performance built from self-made instruments, electronics, objects and instructions. It changes every time it's played, and every version is an attempt to open a portal.

video documentation / portal attempt 01
video documentation / mutable system 02
video documentation / device state 03
go extensions / jumping stilts instrument 04
go extensions / jumping stilts instrument 05
performance fragment 06
performance fragment 07
performance fragment 08
performance fragment 09
rotary shrine / diy piece 10
rotary shrine / diy piece 11
rotary shrine / diy piece 12
rotary shrine / diy piece 13
shining red portal 14
shining red portal 15
shining red portal 16

The App Whisperer is a modular performance that keeps changing. It's not a fixed piece, every version grows, breaks and mutates out of the last one.

Depending on the moment, the space and the current state of the work, I add or remove instruments, devices and objects. The whole thing is built around one task: trying to open a portal.

The portal isn't only a sci-fi image. It's a way of thinking about performance as something that can only happen live, in the present. Through sound, movement, self-built devices and instructions, the body and the machines start working on each other.

So it runs on instability and attention. Failure, repetition and improvisation aren't accidents, they're the material. The piece is never finished, it just turns into the next version.

objects / devices / exact instruments

Portal hardware

Black wheel cap instrument with flames from The App Whisperer.
black wheel cap / flame interface
Performance documentation still from The App Whisperer.
performance system / video fragment
Device documentation still from The App Whisperer.
device state / unstable instruction