The Light That Entangles (TLTE) is an interactional sound and music instrument based installation for up to three players. Uniquely,  however, players’ actions are not individually sensed with the resulting data used and combined through a prescribed synthesis control mapping strategy; but the interface, sound synthesis and player engagement are all co-contextualised as a mutual entanglement. 

This installation marks the concluding element of a period of practice research investigating the application of post-human (or more-than-human) design practice, alongside more established human-centred, embodied, approaches to social multiplayer Digital Musical Instruments (DMI). This research has sought to gain an understanding of how different conceptual frameworks impact design outcomes and, once implemented, the resulting affect on player experience and behaviour. One focus has explored ideas of centring; the manner in which the technical implementation balances individual and mutual agencies. Very few projects have explored technically manifesting posthuman ideas of entanglement into multi-player musical experiences, fewer have read the resulting experiences through a lens of tangible and embodied interaction (or visa-versa).  One research outcome is presented here as an installation; with the intention that community members can reflect on how the implemented technical model and playing experience can influence their own practical designs.