dali: Digital Arts Lab, Iscte

Frustration: audio composition, finished in May 2025. Presented, for the first time, at the exhibition dali Show 2025 - Wanderings: What makes you question life? .

The composition used piano + previously recorded sounds + an ai-assisted small musical finishing. The piano fragments were composed, played and recorded live by Catarina Santos. The recorded sounds were modified and orchestrated by Luís Miguel, using the audio editors Audacity and WavePad. The small musical finishing - the scream - resulted from repeated interaction with the online AI tool Stable Audio.

In this audio, we have tried to capture the frustration felt by someone that repeatedly fails to accomplish their tasks and the anger that accumulates in the process and will eventually manifest itself possibly through some violent expression.