The Last Input — Before the End

The Last Input is an immersive sound performance built around the act of letting go. It asks what meaning remains in the last input a human presses by hand, at a time when artificial intelligence can generate everything.

Dressed in a white lab coat as a mad scientist of creation, the artist uses a piano and controllers to feed sound and parameters into a world within a 49.4-channel spatial sound field. Land is born; plants and strange creatures sprout one after another; then two rival AI species appear: the City, which keeps building upward in an attempt to hold order, and the Virus, which keeps spreading, mutating and eroding.

Both are driven by language models; they remember, learn and make their own decisions. Order is built again and again, and again and again it is scattered by chaos, while new life also grows out of that chaos. Civilisation evolves through this cycle of failure and rebuilding, like a cosmic clock ticking forward one notch at a time as entropy rises.

When the last input is pressed, the artist takes off the white coat and withdraws to become an observer. From then on the organic workings of this world, its survival and its collapse, are handed back to its own chaos, heading somewhere not even its maker can foresee.