Frequency Response aims to explore artists' creativity in a unique and open-ended way. It's in this spirit that AIAIAI developed the TMA-2 Modular headphone, a system that was designed to meet the cross-purpose needs of the modern electronic artist.

The concept behind Frequency Response is as follows: three artists are exposed to a stimulus and respond with a piece of music. Across three features— history art and video—we'll hear how they handled the challenge. The way in which the artists interpreted the brief was entirely up to them. Their only instruction was to create an audio response within four weeks.For the final part of Frequency Response, Pearson Sound, Avalon Emerson and Lucy were given the same four-minute video by Daniel Swan and were asked to produce a soundtrack. The video's concept was withheld to encourage an unbiased response. For his part, we simply asked Swan to provide three-to-five-minute clip based on a subject that interested him at the time. Swan is most widely known for his distinctive music videos for artists like Jam City, Rustie, RL Grime, Django Django, Life Sim and George FitzGerald. He's exhibited at the Barbican and the ICA in London, and has worked with clothing lines such as Adidas, Cottweiler and Primitive. Like much of his best work, Swan's Frequency Response video sits at an intersection between real-life clarity and dreamlike abstraction."I wanted to look at recent images of war as if viewed through the unemotional eye of a circling machine," he says. "I used photographs of the aftermath of bomb attacks, drawing greyscale height maps for them that were used to roughly reconstruct the contours of the places in the photographs by displacing their surfaces. The boundaries of the photographs form three dimensional plate sections when extruded, each one containing distorted structures and wreckage, displaced first by the actual blast and then again by the 2D to 3D conversion."The new landscapes present a lava flow of human details amongst the wrecked homes and warped bicycles, broken house bricks and plastic buckets, all humanity removed by the digital process as the machine observes the data and processes it to the level it requires."