Eugene Moon's Sympathetic Response is a series of stringed instruments or zithers that hang on a wall or walls and the audience interacts with the piece by talking, screaming, singing, or playing an instrument towards the piece. The piece uses sympathetic resonance, where a sound producing part of an instrument, e.g. strings, vibrate from an external sound source and produce sound in response to the activating sound. This type of acoustic phenomenal can be found in Indian and Pamiri music that has multiple sympathetic strings on their instruments that produce an ethereal sound. The concept behind this project revolves around the questions of what defines a musical instrument as an object, can a musical instrument be autonomous, what other types of relationship can a musical instrument have with a musician and/or audience, and how can an audience be both listener and musician or performerMatthew Clough Hunter will be performing a new sound and video work, Midigating the World . "Through my experience with midi (musical instrument digital interface), I have recently been interested in exploring the visual aspect of the notation. In music software programs, you are able to squeeze and stretch the view of the midi information. At a certain position, you can make the midi look like a grid. This inspired me to play with 8 bit art by implementing images of old video game characters into a musical score to see how they would sound. I implemented a limitation on myself for this project; what you see is what you hear. So the music is literally what you see on the screen, nothing more. My aim is to tell a story through the visuals of the notation and find harmony through the visual and the sonic aspects of midi notation. "