Just about the most fundamental experience in human existence is the irreversibility of time. Technology allows us to resist this irreversibility. This resistance is understood in The Mega Playback Show as time-management. The artistic process central to the study is 'mirroring' which is a concrete manifestation of such time-management. By 'mirroring' can be meant 'repeating' or 'reversing'. In addition, the characteristics of mirroring depend on the medium within which the mirroring is performed. For example, a mirrored audio sample of a melody is something completely different from its mirrored score.
Through "mirroring," memories of toekomstmuziek is evoked. These apparitions are called "ghosts". In short, 'mirroring' 'ghosts'. Mirroring as a form of time-management is explored using the computer. An interface is being developed that allows one to act as The Time-Management, a character who can 'mirror' and 'be mirrored' in space and time, during a live performance - the Mega Playback Show. How vast is the range of toekomstmuziek the audience can be reminded of in this way? Memories of atonal toekomstmuziek, memories of arrobotic toekomstmuziek, memories of toekomstmuziek for the deaf, memories of toekomstmuziek from Balkanatolia, ...?
