In our post-future era of acceleration and densification of information, the state and nature of being live and online becomes one of the crucial definers of our social presence. Response and action are compressed into an existential here and now triggering a durée of continuous digital stimulation. With RESPONSE:ABILITY transmediale.11 explored the emerging qualities of liveness as a fundamental nature of our present digital culture.
Cat Suzette plays with her audience, adapting her music to the prevailing mood and then, ultimately, transforming the atmosphere of the room. In this way, her sets can start off with trancey sounds that segue into narrative dub techno and end with ‘robust’ hardness and bouncy 4/4.