W.I.P Labs

Modulated Movements

Live beats. Live bars. Live visuals. Zero presets. Modular synth, freestyle rap, hip-hop dance and live-coded visuals, created once and never again.

Created, conceptualised and produced by W.I.P Labs.

Two performers at live-coding desks under green projected visuals
Modulated Movements at British Council, Creative Convergence 2026

No beats. No safety net. No repeats. Modulated Movements is a live, improvised performance where modular synths, freestyle rap, hip-hop dance and live-coded generative visuals collide in real time.

Beats are built live on modular synths: raw, glitchy and constantly shifting. Rappers jump in, freestyle and battle as the ground keeps moving beneath them. Dancers respond instinctively to rhythm breaks and melodic twists, while visuals are coded live on stage, mutating and reacting to sound and movement as it all unfolds.

Part rap cypher, part live experiment, the work treats technology as a co-creator rather than a tool, and brings modular synthesis and generative visuals, often confined to niche or academic spaces, into hip-hop and street-dance culture. Nothing is pre-written, and every show is a one-time event.

Run time
60 minutes
On stage
1 modular synth artist, 1 live-coding visual artist, 3 freestyle rappers, 3 hip-hop dancers
Form
Improvised, interdisciplinary, with projection mapping
Age
All ages

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Photographs

A hip-hop dancer mid-move under purple light in front of the audience
Two dancers, one standing and one crouched on the floor, under purple light
A rapper with a microphone under red light
The modular synth player at his rig in the dark
A dancer alone on a wide stage lit blue, with the audience seated around
A dancer on stage under green light with the audience around

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