With stacks of old TVs showing the original footage, his accompanying audio-visual show emphasises the latter command.
A Moment of Mishearing, an audio-visual show about Amit Chaudhuri's music, will take place at King's Place, London N1, on 6 October.
The huge underground quarries close to Les Baux-de-Provence, left behind after the bauxite mines were exhausted, have been converted to host a spectacular audio-visual show.
"Voices," a homage to the world's 5,000 languages, 95percentt of them endangered, is an audio-visual show using 24 screens that display 30-second clips of people speaking these languages.
Inside the Black Box is a complex object that tells the story of this mysterious prism in a true audio-visual show.
The juxtaposition of such disparate programming inspired U2 and Achtung Baby co-producer Brian Eno to conceive an "audio-visual show" that would display a rapidly changing mix of live and pre-recorded video on monitors.
On his 2016 debut album, Mù Chè Shān Chū, Howie layered Chinese instruments over trap beats, pairing them in his audio-visual show with 3-D video animations he'd generate with motion-capture Kinect technology.
Their two-day collaboration with the ICA was similarly eclectic, spanning M.E.S.H. and Aleksandra Domanović's collaborative audio-visual show on DNA structures, to a quadrophonic live set from Lee Gamble based on 40 pitched and decomposed patterns.
Ultimately, he admits that the main purpose of his audio-visual show, with its throbbing images drenched in over-saturated colors, is to divert the audience's attention away from his silhouette, standing inert at the controls and towards a more engaging kind of spectacle.
