Fingers on the Pulse was a participative sonic meditation debuted in Lisboa, Portugal in September of 2025. This is an ongoing work, with plans to present at music festivals over the next year. I’m proposing a modified “dweb specific” version here, which would involve participants providing their own phones / using a web interface (instead of using piezos), and me performing from my mac mini instead of a full modular synthesizer setup (for portability / dweb camping friendliness sake lol)

Here was the original description, pulled from its presentation last year https://thresher999.com

Fingers on the Pulse
by Pearl M Wong

What arises when we distribute and coordinate the operation of the clock itself - what do we become if we practice grooving as one, taking turns wielding the power to move the arm of time forward, each depending on the last to keep the groove alive and interesting?

Players will be invited to listen and keep time together in a seated circle, with touching hands rested on electro-acoustic piezo mics. These piezo triggers step forward the internal clock of a multimodal modular synthesizer, steered by the Thresher Trio, assembled with the intent to investigate the perceptual edges between paradigms of synthesis (analog & digital sonics, East/West coast, sampling, dub feedback, spectralist signal processing, scent, light). Each player will await the finger tap of the player before them, the signal call of the incoming pulse train, and will then respond by tapping with their other hand, rested against the next player’s hand. As such, each player is actively folding and posturing the skeleton of the collected rhythm, while listening for what it is trying to say.

Can we bring the spacetime that exists between moments and inside ourselves into sharper focus? What voice emerges when identity is a “yes-and” timing protocol between friends?

Perhaps your bones will learn some math. If not, maybe you’ll have a laugh. In this cosmos, there is but one song, and we all only carry subsections of it. With luck and grace, we can learn to make our transitions sound sweet, together.