Critical systems follows upon the research of circuits of extended phenotype - fragile and sensitive, "soft" electronic instruments and elemental techniques of playing with them (see also: Elemental encounters and Rehydration).

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The performance focuses upon points of criticality – unstable and liminal, energetically charged states, on the brink of transition to something else. Addressing sound as a force, impacting lives and matter on multitude of scales, performance questions how even the slightest activation can destabilize the system - tip the scales towards a pronounced release: Like avalanches that start from a shout, or revolutions that start from a song.