Protist Reverie is a live full-dome performance where a digital organism and an improvised musical score evolve together in real time.

Set inside a vast virtual petri dish, the organism -loosely modeled on Physarum polycephalum- moves through fields of invisible stimuli, responding, failing, regrouping. It stretches, fragments, collapses, and reforms, cycling through moments of birth and decay as its coded impulses collide with an unstable environment.

Musician Saber Rider performs in direct conversation with the visuals, shaping sound that nudges the organism’s behavior while reacting to its shifts in return. The result is a feedback loop: sound influences motion, motion reshapes sound, neither fully in control.

The piece is built with Uncharted Limbo’s custom generative system, blending scientific simulation with live performance. Particle ecosystems, turbulent flows, and MIDI-controlled nutrient tapestries accumulate and dissolve, forming a landscape that is continuously rewritten. No two runs unfold the same way.

At its core, Protist Reverie is an open-ended experiment: an exploration of adaptation, fragility, and co-dependence. It asks what it means to persist inside a system that is always changing, and how identity emerges through pressure, interaction, and time.