CxBxT Shakoo version by Shojiro Nakaoka


This audiovisual work reconsiders dub as a method of reconstruction across both sound and image.
Using the original stems of “Shakoo” from CxBxT’s album “.After,” the piece treats recorded material not as a fixed composition, but as a mutable source in continuous transformation.


In dub, sound is displaced, fragmented, and reassembled through processes such as delay, filtering, and spatialization.
Here, this approach is extended beyond audio, where the same source material is translated into a generative audiovisual system. Signals derived from the stems are decomposed, modulated, and recombined, forming unstable correspondences between sonic and visual domains.


Rather than following a linear structure, the work unfolds as a dynamic field in which elements drift, interfere, and continuously reconfigure over time.
Sound and image do not illustrate one another, but emerge from shared processes while simultaneously interacting, continuously transforming their relationships. 
 The piece is realized in a browser-based environment, where audio processing and visual generation are tightly coupled. Presented as a set of 8 video files and 10 still images, the work captures partial states of an ongoing process.
Each output reflects a momentary configuration within continuous recomposition.


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CxBxT is a new collaborative project consisting of Japanese singer, songwriter, and filmmaker Tujiko Noriko, musician and composer Adrian Corker, and percussionist George Barton (GBSR). The pieces on .After were recorded live through improvisation over 2 days.