During the recent global pandemic, reality went through profound deformations. While the physical body was forced to stay indoors, the mind was moving at a remarkable speed, creating an unprecedent feeling of diffraction where the self becomes fully detached from its location. The constant stream of news and (mis)information trapped us in a state of disorientation, which inevitably leads to a never-ending search for fragments of a coherent reality. LAGU (Local Ambience Generative Unit) is an endless audio generative system that creates an indoor experience by simulating the feeling of a location, allowing the viewer to halt and synchronize himself back with the physical world. It is designed to run forever without human input, following pre-established rules and being modulated in real-time by weather conditions. This generative nature allows the system to develop itself in unpredictable ways, with simple audio layers overlapping each other to create complex patterns and textures every single run. At the same time, the slow rate of meteorological changes ensures a controlled and linear experience of space and time.
