BOX BOX BOX is a new work that revolves around a performance ecology of three self-built portable electronic instruments. Although the project was conceived around BOX, both HST1d and Beat Machine v 0.3 play an important role. The intention with BOX is to communicate the inner workings of the software and the decisions/gestures of the human performer via 48 LEDs built into the lid of the instrument, which is orientated towards the audience during performance and used for visual feedback by the performer. When closed BOX has no visible controls on its outside surfaces but hides light and a control interface within, an accelerometer built into the lid acts as overall volume control and provides a link between sound, light, and motion; when BOX is closed no light is visible and sound stops. The works presented here are inherently improvised but structured by various interactive behaviors and sonic systems.