Veto_L

Veto_L is a non-traditional stringed instrument that Caloro has created to address the semi-rhetorical question concerning the consciousness of inorganic matter and the autonomous evolution of machines that goes hand-in-hand with this. Six strings, plucked mechanically, have been stretched over a Plexiglass tube that serves as a sounding board. The instrument composes by means of artificial, self-organizing, neural networks that control all aspects of the activity of the instrument. The musical concept is thus constituted by the absence of a manmade concept imposing itself on the machine. The possibility of the autonomy of a machine, or rather its self-learning process, leads Caloro to contemplate whether the instrument, despite its being free of cultural and social influences, would be able to develop new strategies on its own after many years of continuous operation, and - unlike man - even be in a position to liberate itself from automatisms and habits. Caloro transports recent debates in technology to the level of his concept art, where reality and utopia may hardly be clearly differentiated anymore, and the further extrapolations of such thought approaches know no boundaries.