DIAMARTYR

An interactive noise ritual of collapse

A martyr anti-god. Dynamite in the deity’s face — bone shaking, cartilage breaking, the skull cracking open.

Διαμαρτυρία (diamartyría) — Greek for protest.

An uncut gem — a diamond — becomes a charge. A mortar that turns on itself, becoming a martyr in its own detonation. It strikes the distorted face of reality, not to reshape it, but to confront it.

An ontological scream, an outcry directed at no one in particular. Anger spreads in all directions, without a clear cause or target. It is a dissatisfaction with being itself—a force within existence that turns against its own condition.

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DIAMARTYR is an interactive audiovisual work created for Avant Beetle’s Protest Jam. Sound, image, and interaction are fused. Industrial noise, synthetic sound, and flashing visuals operate within a stripped-down digital space. It draws from expressionist and modernist traditions — including Georg Trakl, Francis Bacon, James Joyce, William S. Burroughs, and modernist poetry.

All vocals originate from recordings by the Russian-based artist Kira Kirman and are transformed using generative tools. The voice is treated as material — retained, altered, and fed back into the system.

The work was developed under strict constraints: limited tools, low resolution, and a short production time. These limits define its form. The visuals remain rough and exposed.

The work includes persistent imagery of violence, decay, and physical distress that may be difficult for some viewers.

The current version is a proof of concept and may be expanded.

⚠️ Warning: This project contains extremely aggressive flashing imagery and rapid visual transitions that may trigger seizures in individuals with photosensitive epilepsy.