Originally founded in 2016 as an electroacoustic piano restoration company. Since 2022, Myriorama now focuses on researching, documenting, and developing new innovative instruments, with special focus on the potential of public and collective instrumentation.
All projects hereby presented have been conceived and directed by Miguel La Corte.
Myriorama [mɪriəˈrɑːmə (mirr-ee-uh-RAH-muh)] literally means “a myriad of reflections”, it refers to a 19th century set of rearrangeable illustrated cards made to create different landscape variations. Myriorama is also the former name of renowned Italian art collective Gruppo T. Their early focus on redefining audience perception though interactive and generative creative practices, served as the main reference to create a new instrument R&D lab; one focused on the potential of socially-designed perception-shifting instruments.
In a society where cultural audiences have been hypnotically induced into passive roles through closed-control scrolling platforms, Myriorama aims to instrument a new century of music by looking back and pushing forward the original meaning of the word instrument: to instruct ‘instruere’ the mind ‘mentis’ into a new state of perception.
In more detail, this new conception of instrumentation put forth is that of Public and Collective Instrumentation:
1. Public instrumentation: the practice of directly instructing society with new perceptions towards emerging technologies. By designing instruments that freely and easily allow participants into the fundamental building blocks of these technologies, people can thus truly understand the potential and involving responsibilities of these.
2. Collective instrumentation: refers to creating instruments designed to enable distributed control over the creative process between multiple participants, enabling them to practice a new conception of creation as an open and collective system where cooperation and adaptation take center stage.
Beyond setting a new tone in our media ecologies, Myriorama aims to define a new social attitude that allows us to reflect more responsively into our consumption patterns, our understanding of our cybernetic condition, and thus finally instructing us a new perception over individual creation and co-creation.
All projects hereby presented have been conceived and directed by Miguel La Corte.
Myriorama [mɪriəˈrɑːmə (mirr-ee-uh-RAH-muh)] literally means “a myriad of reflections”, it refers to a 19th century set of rearrangeable illustrated cards made to create different landscape variations. Myriorama is also the former name of renowned Italian art collective Gruppo T. Their early focus on redefining audience perception though interactive and generative creative practices, served as the main reference to create a new instrument R&D lab; one focused on the potential of socially-designed perception-shifting instruments.
In a society where cultural audiences have been hypnotically induced into passive roles through closed-control scrolling platforms, Myriorama aims to instrument a new century of music by looking back and pushing forward the original meaning of the word instrument: to instruct ‘instruere’ the mind ‘mentis’ into a new state of perception.
In more detail, this new conception of instrumentation put forth is that of Public and Collective Instrumentation:
1. Public instrumentation: the practice of directly instructing society with new perceptions towards emerging technologies. By designing instruments that freely and easily allow participants into the fundamental building blocks of these technologies, people can thus truly understand the potential and involving responsibilities of these.
2. Collective instrumentation: refers to creating instruments designed to enable distributed control over the creative process between multiple participants, enabling them to practice a new conception of creation as an open and collective system where cooperation and adaptation take center stage.
Beyond setting a new tone in our media ecologies, Myriorama aims to define a new social attitude that allows us to reflect more responsively into our consumption patterns, our understanding of our cybernetic condition, and thus finally instructing us a new perception over individual creation and co-creation.