Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

20:00 Open Reel Ensemble

Cafe Strom

21:30 GelbGut

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

23:00 mirage00 – Kouji Ohno (JP), Tesuya Yamamoto (JP), Nobu Miake (JP), Toshikazu Toyama (JP)
24:00 Cherry Sunkist (AT)
01:00 Regolith

GelbGut (AT)

The loveable, offbeat Viennese electronic performer aren’t out to make the dolls dance; they want you to get your calves and thighs in gear! The energy supply necessary for their set is provided by pedaling audience members atop bicycle generators.

Tesla Orchestra (USA)

The American ensemble takes the stage with a high-energy show in which the million-volt high tension of two Tesla coils is transferred into audio frequencies.

Open Reel Ensemble (JP)

For this performance well worth seeing and hearing, Japan’s Open Reel Ensemble has converted an analog recording device into a sound-producing instrument, and plays on (or with) magnetic tape machines salvaged from technological retirement.
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mirage00 – Tesuya Yamamoto (JP), Nobu Miake (JP), Toshikazu Toyama (JP)

Die Erfinder des mirage00 präsentieren in einem Showcase ihr intuitiv zu spielendes Musikinstrument, das seine Sounds auch gleich in einem 360°-Panoptikum. visualisieren kann.

Cherry Sunkist (AT)

“I’m not here to entertain you” is how one of her pieces goes, and Cherry Sunkist aka Karin Fisslthaler certainly lives up to this cheeky statement. Her performance is characterized by raw tones and samples, interference and cool synthesizer sounds, set in the experimental no-man’s land at the intersection of new wave melancholy, songwriting and electric storm, borne by a multifaceted voice between charm and understatement.

In conjunction with CREATE YOUR WORLD, we will be showcasing some of this year’s best projects that have to do with issues that are key to humankind’s future: energy, mobility and access. The Choke Point Project inquires into who actually exerts control over the internet. The Kibilight Project makes solar energy—and thus the first form of electrical energy of any kind—available to broad segments of the Kenyan population.

Haberlandt is a sort of food processor that turns algae into edible dumplings.

Team Mitoh / roomoot made up of students of Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP) is represented by an elaborate installation. The Ether Inductor equipped with high-performance sensors stages a playful encounter of two persons initially separated by a dark partition. If the two protagonists successfully carry out motion assignments issued on a display, the partition gradually becomes transparent and optical contact become possible.

Discover a truly fascinating instrument: the Mirage00. This audiovisual technical marvel by Kouji Ohno (JP), Tetsuya Yamamoto (JP), Toshikazu Toyama (JP) and Nobu Miake (JP) is not only a musical instrument that can be played intuitively; it simultaneously produces a visualization of the resulting sound in a 360° Panopticon. Thanks to its state-of-the-art sensors, it takes audience reactions into account and revises its audiovision accordingly.

Kouji Ohno, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Nobu Miake and Toshikazu Toyama will honor Ars Electronica with a demonstration of their mirage00.

This very clever musical instrument resembles a skinny refrigerator supported on an even skinnier leg. A touchscreen on one of the surfaces is the only indication that there’s more than just cold beer inside. What it contains are a convex mirror, a projector, several color LEDs, and naturally a computer that’s responsible for orchestrating the whole affair.

There are two ways to play the mirage. One is in sequencer mode, in which you can use it just like a Tenori-On or other sequencer to arrange loops and play them back together, all based on a temporal level. Anyone who’s ever heard a few bars of electronic music knows what this is all about.

The second is in magic pad mode that lets you get away from the strictness of musical arrangement. You can playfully mix the loops generated by a computer game engine and constantly discover new worlds of sound.

And what about the projectors? They transform acoustic events into visual ones and do so in a very richly textured way. The convex mirror immerses the person playing the mirage in a colorful beam of light that reacts to the notes and loops of the music and creates fantastic color effects. To augment the pulse of the music, you can tilt the entire instrument to produce optical distortions. The mirage has lots of interesting features and capabilities to discover.