FLUTTER // feat. XON-Sphere

an immersive audiovisual performance that explores the lived experience of Tourette’s in a responsive, tactile field of light and sound.

Flutter is an immersive vocal and audiovisual performance by composer Deborah Shaw (Aurora Engine), exploring Tourette’s syndrome through sound. Drawing on her lived experience, the work moves from the fractured rhythms of vocal and physical tics into a layered choral and electronic soundscape, reflecting anxiety, embodiment, and the therapeutic potential of music

Mettje Hunneman’s light sculpture acts as an active visual counterpart, where illuminated neurological processes give form to invisible dynamics. Audiences are immersed in a shared field of sound and light, experiencing the work as an embodied, spatial environment.

Flutter is a vocal and sonic exploration of Tourette’s syndrome — vocal and physical tics — by composer and sound artist Deborah Shaw ( Aurora Engine ). Composed for three voices — Deborah Shaw, Emma Lloyd and John Hails — the work draws on her lived experience since childhood, moving from the jarring rhythm and pitch of physical and vocal tics into a layered choral and electronic soundscape that explores anxiety and the relationship between sound, the body and mental health. It culminates in a euphoric sonic field that reflects the calming and therapeutic effect of sound and singing on the body. Mettje’s light sculptures revolve around composing tension and release — stretching and spinning visual lines that gather, hold and then let go — echoing the way tension builds and releases also in a tic, which is why this collaboration felt so naturally aligned. It appears as if light emits from the sculpture’s frame itself — even though you can clearly see the light is projected onto it. It becomes about projecting movement onto a structure that transforms the movement itself. Developed in the Cryptic Nights residency 2026.

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