Sound – Radical Atoms https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en Ars Electronica Festival 2016 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:26:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Relative Realities https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/relative-realities/ Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:56:44 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=3571 A pendulum swings through a space. A video screen, constituting its pendulum bob, carves its path through the exhibition space. From its ever-changing position it presents a view into a different scene. Although freely swaying through space it collides with objects; invisible, but audible. A computer traces the pendulum’s position and—in a computer model—embeds it into a mathematical world where it collides and interacts with objects. This interaction between the pendulum and its mathematical surroundings provides the source for a three-dimensional soundscape. Something is forced into motion. Slowly it returns to standstill. Next time things will behave rather similarly. Only the world in the computer changes.

Artistic concept, audio and visuals: Volkmar Klien

Sensor and video system, modeling: Thomas Grill

Pendulum Driving device: Bernardo Niederhageböck & Gerald Hanisch

Color grading: Lisa Truttmann

With the support of: Rubblemaster (rubblemaster.com)

Cat-x—technical production: Florian Prix

With the support of: Niederösterreich Kultur, Klangraum Krems, Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, Musik Aktuell

]]> Robots in Architecture https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/robots-in-architecture/ Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:53:06 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=1429

The international Association for Robots in Architecture is originally a spin off association of Vienna University of Technology. Its goal is to make industrial robots accessible for the creative industry, artists, designers and architects, by sharing ideas, research results and technological developments. Founded in December 2010 by Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann, Robots in Architecture is an open platform for everybody interested in the creative use of and innovative fabrication with industrial robots. Robots in Architecture is engaged in applied research, soft- and hardware development, “robot pedagogics” – and in the question: how soon will robots revolutionize architecture?

PRINT A DRINK

PRINT A DRINK combines methods from robotics, life sciences, and design to explore a completely new field of 3D printing. Rather than building up objects layer by layer, the process uses a high-end KUKA iiwa robot to accurately “inject” microliter drops of edible liquid into a cocktail. Within a minute, PRINT A DRINK can build up complex 3D structures in a wide range of drinks—creating fascinating augmented cocktails using only natural ingredients. The process was developed by Benjamin Greimel at the new laboratory for creative robotics of the University of Arts and Design Linz and will utilize the latest-generation KUKA LBR iiwa robot—a robot built for man-machine collaboration. Credits: Benjamin Greimel; Philipp Hornung; Johannes Braumann; PRINT A DRINK; University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz

sonic Degrees of Freedom

Sonic Degrees of Freedom – audiovisual environment translating the digital with analogue, and physical with virtual – turning a “collaborative” robot into a controller for the audio-visual environment, dancing sound-gesture. “SdoF” is set as an environment, so one can experience, how to move the interactive, anticipative machine, feeling the interactivity and responsiveness, the machine demands, while it is so feely, that one can move it with fingers, if force and movement are felt fully unthought, but done.

Concept / Idea / Realization: Johannes Braumann, Chris Noelle, Michael Schweiger
Johannes Braumann head of laboratory for creative robotics at UfG Linz,  co-founded Robots in Architecture.
Michael Schweiger – sound artist / sonic thinker leads K2 Soundstudio at UfG Linz.
Chris Noelle – multimedia artist,  in the fields of projection mapping, interactive design and lightpainting.
The chair for Individualized Production in Architecture at RWTH Aachen explores new robotic applications in the fields of design and construction.
Supported by KUKA Robotics CEE

]]> Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking Culinary concert for chef and enchanted kitchenette https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/practices-of-everyday-life-cooking-culinary-concert-for-chef-and-enchanted-kitchenette/ Wed, 03 Aug 2016 09:43:30 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=2883 A culinary concert orchestrated around a chef, an enchanted kitchenette and sonified ingredients. As the chef prepares a meal, sections emerge from culinary tasks to form multisensory tableaus. Each tableau is a unique gestural sound composition undertaking phenomenological reconsideration of notions such as instrument, performer, computation, and the musical event as a whole. Interactive instruments carefully embedded into the scenography symbolically charge everyday actions and objects in ways that combine the composer’s design with the performer’s contingent nuance. Within the enchanted kitchenette, gestures mimicking sonic affordances and audiovisual events shaped under gestural contours feed back one into the other, breaking dualities such as analog-digital, performer-performed, instrument-score, or intention-noise. The act of performing music then emerges freely from open engagement with matter, borrowing elements from “play”, day to day living, and the movement arts.

Artistic direction, concept, composition, interactive scenography, sound: Navid Navab
Interactive visual design, real-time video: Jerome Delapierre
Mise en scène: Michael Montanaro
Performance: Tony Chong

Topological Media Lab research collaboration—2012-2013
Matralab residency—2014
Co-production: Navid Navab and Montreal/New Musics Festival (MNM)—2015
Support: Canada Arts Council, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

]]> Focus Digital Music and Soundart: Sonic Saturday https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/sonicsaturday/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 20:03:30 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=2256 The Sonic Saturday schedule includes a diversified lineup of offerings—symposia, panel discussions, a guided tour, Listening Room and Medium Sonorum—dedicated to listening experiences in general and modern multi-channel compositions and computer music in particular.

Program

SAT September 10, 2016

2 PM–4 PM Symposium: Music & Sound Art Sound Art & Music – Session 1, Anton Bruckner University Linz, Studiobühne
2 PM–7 PM Listening Room, Anton Bruckner University Linz, CMS Produktionsstudio
4:30 PM–5:15 PM WE GUIDE YOU / Experts tour: Guided Tour/Demo, Anton Bruckner University Linz, CMS Computer Music Studio
5:30 PM–7:30 PM Symposium: Music & Sound Art Sound Art & Music – Session 2, Anton Bruckner University, Studiobühne
8 PM–10 PM Medium Sonorum. Intermedia Computer Music Concert, Anton Bruckner University, CMS Sonic Lab & Kleiner Saal

 

Sound Arts & Music – Music & Sound Arts

The Ars Electronica Symposium / Artist’s meeting at the Anton Bruckner University
SAT September 10, 2016, 2 PM-7:30 PM, Anton Bruckner University Linz, Studiobühne
Organising committee: Volkmar Klien (AT), Andreas Weixler (AT), Se-Lien Chuang (TW)

Symposium – Session 1

2 PM-2:15 PM Ursula Brandstätter (AT), Gerfried Stocker (AT) & Volkmar Klien (AT) Opening remarks
2:15 PM-2:45 PM Thomas Gardner (UK) Mimesis and Musical measurement
2:45 PM-3 PM Antonino Chiaramonte (IT/UK) Audio-visual music and Sound Art, a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice-led research field for developing intermedia artworks
3 PM-3:15 PM Werner Jauk (AT) music & sound-installation: installing auditory worlds mediated bodily by codes for sounds <-> immediated bodily by sounds …
3:15 PM-3:30 PM Sam Auinger (AT/DE) Artist´s statement
3:30 PM-4 PM Panel discussion

Moderation: Astrid Schwarz (AT, Ö1 & FM4)

The special treat

4:30 PM-5:15 PM The Computer Music Studio @Anton Bruckner University – A guided tour and short demo with Andreas Weixler (AT) and Se-Lien Chuang (TW) (Meeting Point: Anton Bruckner University, Entrance)

Symposium – Session 2

5:30 PM-6 PM Sabine Sanio (DE) Aspects of the Performance Situation in Music and Sound Art
6 PM-6:15 PM David Berezan (CA/UK) Illusion and Hyper-reality in the Nautical Cycle
6:15 PM-6:30 PM Volkmar Klien (AT) Music and the in-audible
6:30 PM-6:45 PM Veronika Mayer (AT) Irregularities in Sound – Observing Processes
6:45 PM-7 PM Peter Rantaša (AT) What, when or where is a work of sound art?
Ontology, notion and concept, commercial intercourse
7 PM-7:30 PM Panel discussion

Moderation: Astrid Schwarz (AT, Ö1 & FM4)

 

Medium Sonorum – Intermedia Computer Music Concert

SAT September 10, 2016, 8 PM-10 PM, Anton Bruckner University Linz, CMS Sonic Lab & Kleiner Saal
curated by Andreas Weixler (AT), Se-Lien Chuang (TW) and Volkmar Klien (AT)

Please note: To allow for a maximum number of people enjoying perfect listening positions close to the centre of the loudspeaker setups, both parts of the concerts (in the CMS Sonic Lab as well as Kleiner Saal) will be performed twice (at 8 PM and 9 PM) with one half of the audience starting in the Sonic Lab, the other half in Kleiner Saal.

Sonic Lab

  • Takuto Fukuda (JP): Assimilation (Kontrabass: Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka)
  • David Berezan (CA/UK): buoy
  • Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (AR/US): Kitchen <-> Miniature(s)
  • Manuella Blackburn (UK): switched on
  • Antonino Chiaramonte (IT/UK): Falling (Video: Adriano Cirulli)

Kleiner Saal

  • Michael Mayr (AT): self sustained circle
  • Jakob Schauer (AT): Organismen
  • Thomas Gardner (UK): Lipsync
  • Veronika Mayer (AT) : Organ (Orgel: Theresa Zöpfl (AT))

 

Listening Room

SAT September 10, 2016, 2 PM-7 PM, Anton Bruckner University Linz, CMS Produktionsstudio
Multi-channel compositions in the 20.2 channel loudspeaker listening situation of the CMS Produktionsstudio

  • Rosalia Soria (MX/UK): Time Paradox (8 ch, 10:40)
  • Constantin Popp (DE/UK): Points, lines, planes (multichannel, 13:35)
  • Hassan Zanjirani Farahani (IR/AT): Tibet (4 ch, 06:38)
  • Dante Tanzi (IT): Etakate! (stereo, 07:32)
  • Mark Pilkington (UK): Moiré (audio-visual , 09:03)
  • Se-Lien Chuang (TW): VICC_variation_4.6 (20.2 ch version, 06:08)
  • Andreas Weixler (AT): for Pi (8 ch, 06:04)
  • Astrid Schwarz (AT): „Nichts als des Schrecklichen Anfang“ (8 ch, 05:52)
  • Tobias Leibetseder (AT): Druckpunkt (8 ch, 07:00)
  • Volkmar Klien (AT): Aufschwimmen, langsam (8 ch, 07:41)
  • Thomas Grill (AT): „the bore“ (3×4 ch, 08:30)

 

Shuttle bus / Sonic Saturday

On SAT September 10, 2016, a shuttle bus will take you directly from the POSTCITY or the Ars Electronica Center to the Anton Bruckner University and back.

Direction Anton Bruckner University

POSTCITY
(Departure)		 Ars Electronica Center
(Departure)		 Anton Bruckner University
(Arrival)
12:45 PM 1 PM 1:10 PM
1:30 PM 1:45 PM 1:55 PM
4 PM 4:15 PM 4:25 PM
7:25 PM 7:40 PM 7:50 PM

Direction POSTCITY

Anton Bruckner University
(Departure)		 Ars Electronica Center
(Departure)		 POSTCITY
(Arrival)
3:30 PM 3:40 PM 3:55 PM
6:50 PM 7 PM 7:15 PM
10:15 PM 10:25 PM 10:40 PM
]]> Fog Pixel https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/fog-pixel/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:00:58 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=2048 Kazuma Suzuki, Asturo Ueki, Masa Inakage
Fog Pixel introduces a method for controlling the fog stream shape, direction and wind velocity, to go along with light and sound.]]> Kazuma Suzuki, Asturo Ueki, Masa Inakage

Fog Pixel is an interactive installation that can emit a stream of fog in the rectangular shape of pixel. It was initially designed as a new type of stage expression platform. The artists explored the form and movement of fog to design a unique participatory aesthetic expression through embodied interaction. Using fog as a medium for interactive design, Fog Pixel introduces a method for controlling the fog stream shape, direction and wind velocity, to go along with light and sound. Fog Pixel aims to pave the way for a new type of interactive design.

Project credits:

Kazuma Suzuki, Asturo Ueki, Masa Inakage

Keio University Graduate School of Media Design

music courtesy of Hazuki Miyazaki

This work was created as part of the Keio University Global Smart Society Creation Research Project

]]> Deep Space 8K: White Point 2016 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/deep-space-8k-white-point/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:47:03 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=1038 The starting point of AROTIN & SERGHEI’s art Installation WHITE POINT for the Deep Space 8K is the smallest possible visible image: a single shining white light pixel of the matrix of 66 million of the 16 m x 18 m projection space is shown pulsing in the rhythm of a heartbeat. It moves gradually to the viewer and takes the whole space of the building. In the radical enlargement one can discover the structure of this white light point, a cube made of red, blue and green light cells dissolved by the brightness contrast of pulsation into visible and invisible phases. In the bright overexposure of the flashes, the colors melt into dazzling white. In the shadow phases memories of color cells “engraved” in the retina of our eyes blur and seem to change. The sequences of mutation of subliminal retinal images is realized as an 8K single-picture animation of six layers, projected onto the wall and floor and combined with the sound of Scriabin’s synthetic hexachord, the origin of all sounds.

In cooperation with Bildrecht Vienna / Museum in Progress Vienna.

Not recommended for epileptics.

]]> Burning Too https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/burning-too/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:09:44 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=2683 Bright lights and blazing flames—Don Ritter works with sound & video projections screened right on the exterior wall of the old post office at Linz’s main train station right across from the entrance to POSTCITY. The imposing projections consist of multiple recordings of fire that are mixed and manipulated in real time during playback. The colors change slowly but steadily, while the sound of the fire is interactively controlled by the visual activity of the projection. Don Ritter’s Burning Too plays with the symbolic power of fire. In bygone days, primary focus was on fire’s specific benefits, but nowadays fire evokes feelings like fear or romanticism. The selection of the façade was by no means a matter of chance. This structure was built during the postwar era on the basis of plans by Hitler’s architect Speer. Thus, in the historical context of this place and its past, it can also serve as a monument that commemorates and admonishes.

Design and programming, video and sound editing: Don Ritter
Production coordinator: Cleo Song
Raw video footage: Mitch Martninez
Produced with financial assistance from City University of Hong Kong, grant no. 9380072.

]]> Deep Space 8K: Scalar Fields https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/deep-space-8k-scalar-fields/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:35:25 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=988 This work visualizes the pressure field around the soles of shoes. By using the fluid simulation software developed by the artist, the propagation of pressure in air is visualized in 8K video, with a marvelous sound experience.

When wearing shoes and performing acts such as standing and walking, a pressure field that is invisible to the naked eye is generated on the contact surface, and this certainly continues to affect the surrounding areas. The shoe is not just a device to support walking; it is also a medium to propagate the wearer’s existence and identity in the form of mild pressure.

A small storm is raging in the micro space around the shoe sole. Wind pressure generated by walking blows the mite off the carpet. Converting to macro scale, it is similar to the phenomenon in which human beings are blown down by the air pressure generated during wartime air raids. Through simulation and visualization, we may obtain a wide range of perception connecting the micro to the macro world.

Visualization : Akira Wakita
Music : Tetsuya Komuro

]]> Sonic Wildness https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/sonic-wildness/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:34:39 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=2196 Steffen Armbruster, Antye Greie-Ripatti
In this installation the artists create complex soundscapes that can be explored individually, that connect with the space the users are in and let them dive into the sonic wildness.]]> Steffen Armbruster, Antye Greie-Ripatti

Sonic interventions investigate notions of coexistence, communication and potential for interaction in hybrid ecology. The radical voice as the embodied human instrument and language as the base for code and algorithms lead to complex programming. What we call wild or radical is hard to find. Wildness is about listening. Deep Listening as well as introspective listening to an artificial soundscape derived from the “radical wild.” This project is intended to build a connection between sound and space. The installation takes advantage of the new acoustic possibilities of the usomo system. This headphone-based system tracks the position and rotation of each user precisely. With this information it is possible to place sounds at exact positions in real space with the usomo software. In this installation we create complex soundscapes that can be explored individually, that connect with the space the users are in and let them dive into the sonic wildness.

 

Concept and technical setup: Steffen Armbruster

Sound concept and sound production: Antye Greie-Ripatti

Spatial concept and design: Marc Osswald

Sound system: USOMO

]]> Black Hole Horizon https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/black-hole-horizon/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:14:22 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=2168 Thom Kubli
Black Hole Horizon by Thom Kubli is a meditation on a spectacular machine that transforms sound into three-dimensional objects and keeps the space in a steady state of transformation.]]> Thom Kubli

What is the relationship between oscillating air, black holes and soap bubbles? What effect does the sound of horns have on the human psyche and why is it present in various creation myths? What impact does gravity have on our collective consciousness? Where do spectacle and contemplation meet? Black Hole Horizon by Thom Kubli is a meditation on a spectacular machine that transforms sound into three-dimensional objects and keeps the space in a steady state of transformation.

The nucleus of the installation is the invention of an apparatus resembling a ship’s horn. As each note sounds, a huge soap bubble emerges from the horn. It grows while the note sounds, peels off the horn, lingers in the exhibition space and finally bursts at a random position within the room.

The complete installation comprises three horns varying in size and shape according to their individual pitch and timbre. Visitors can walk through the room witnessing the transformation of sound into ephemeral sculptures, which last only for seconds before their material remains are deposited on the walls and floor.

 

Mechatronik: David Jaschik


CAD-Layouts: Zackery Belanger


realized with the support of EMPAC, Troy/New York

]]>