Switching Worlds

In the context of this work, I propose to examine my compositional strategy from a post-digital perspective and to present my artistic method as a tool for visualizing and sensually experiencing digital effects in the analog world. This approach is based on the assumption that the use of digital tools and forms of representation is no longer the exception but the rule today—and that this fact significantly shapes our interactions, perceptions, and body images. In particular, this approach addresses the question of whether our view of the analog, non-digital environment has also changed under these conditions. "Post-digitality" is understood here as a "shift in perception." This reorientation of a digitally influenced or reflective perspective is presented as a compositional strategy.

Under the title "Switching Worlds," this practice is established as a technique that actively addresses and makes tangible the intertwining of the analog and the digital and their interaction. Different perspectives are juxtaposed. The comparison of virtual and physical worlds and their artistic decoupling are presented as a compositional approach and method of artistic research—with the aim of not only penetrating these connections theoretically, but also making them sensually comprehensible.

Alexander Schubert is a founding member of ensembles such as Decoder. His works have been performed over 900 times in recent years by numerous ensembles in over 40 countries.
He studied neuroinformatics and multimedia composition and is a freelance composer and professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater.
His work focuses on post-digital performance concepts that lie at the interface between the digital and analog worlds. He explores the friction between immersive physical settings and their artificial virtual counterparts. His multimedia compositions work with sound, video, and light and address the subjective and social confrontation of humans with a technological present and future.

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