The Montreal-based composer and sound artist Maxime De La Rochefoucauld (aka Maxime Rioux) from a performance for automaton-driven percussion, strings, and household objects. His Système Ki are not played directly by a musician. Instead they are mechanically triggered by inaudible, subsonic rhythmic bursts and waves. The musician does not touch the instruments. The name "Ki" refers to the Japanese concept of Qi, the notion of a vital energy that animates all things. Recorded at the Roulette concert space in New York in 2001.