The Plural
Monolith

A collective livecoding experiment.

Audiences contribute sounds and voice fragments to a decentralised soundbank, which performers retrieve and code into music live in real time. The cross remains: the burden of coordination, the architecture of belief, the structure we carry even when we claim to be free of structures.

The Plural Monolith — collective livecoding setup

Contribute

Drop your samples, sounds, fragments, field recordings, or recorded voice into the soundbank before the session begins. All material is stored on Swarm and made available for live use during the performance — imported, played, and coded via Strudel.

Open the app, click the Submit button in the top-right corner — it opens a small form. Upload a short .wav of your choice. No wallet needed. No install.

Open the app →

Choose a word

Record yourself saying a random word and upload it — or pick one from the list:

signal — noise — proof — ghost — memory — exit — commons — ritual — desire — witness — protocol — opacity — consensus — uncloud — obedience — threshold — system — mask — collapse — order — glitch — capture — freedom — monolith — fork — secret — public — private — command — silence — obey — refuse — leak — surveil — store — erase — return — sync — desync — release — compile — repeat — dissolve — loud — encrypted — sovereign — collective — individual — transparent — broken — verified — central — decentral — mutable — immutable — visible — hidden — shared — captured — free — recursive — anonymous — synthetic — popular — impossible — plural

Your sample may return as rhythm, command, fragment, chorus, or noise.

Join live

Take part during a live session. Sit at the terminal, write a line, trigger a sound, interrupt the pattern, or help forge the track.

Premiere — Web3PN Neocypherpunk Summit
Funkhaus, Berlin · 14 June 2026 · 18:30
Session II — Web3 Summit
Funkhaus, Berlin · 18 June 2026 · 18:00

Concept

The Plural Monolith stages a black cross, four terminals, and four ideological fronts facing the same impossible object, pushed into one shared composition. It probes a central Web3 contradiction: how to coordinate collectively without surrendering individual sovereignty. The collective can become intelligence, solidarity, and order; it can also become an alibi, where the individual dissolves, accountability disappears, and dissent is treated as malfunction. So the contradiction is coded directly. Chaos becomes order. Order becomes noise. Signals collide, sync, fork, and collapse. The cross remains: the burden of coordination, the architecture of belief, and the structure we carry even when we claim to be free of structures.

How it works

The livecoding app is a fork of Strudel.cc hosted on Swarm. It loads a custom soundbank from Swarm, while a built-in upload tool ('submit' button) lets anyone add new samples or voice recordings directly to that shared bank. Tracks can be published to a Swarm-based board for discussion, playback, editing, and remixing, and the final session archive is stored back on the network. For easy browser access, the public interface is served through a gateway; direct Bee light-node access is the fully native path.