Performance by Chris Obrist during the Netzwerkwoche in February 2023.
Video was made by + IVA LAKIC +
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DARKLIGHT
SPECTRAL
This video essay focuses on the topic of the creative processes and aesthetic research. Negotiating with the unconscious, the primordial soup, enduring the diffuse, the ephemeral, the doubts, getting lost, evolving yourself in search to find deeper connections. What is your passion or what are you struggling with?
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SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
AUTARK
Under this heading, short stories on aesthetic research and current social issues are released. Always with the aim to inform, to show possibilities and alternatives. The reader should be taken on a journey, on which his mind opens for new things and changes.
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HELENE VOGELSINGER
Her sound can be described as hypnotic and intense, in the field of cinematic ambient and electronic orchestral music. As a French artist, she uses exclusively modular synthesizers for her sound explorations and compositions. With this instrument of infinite possibilities, she immerses us in an ocean of sounds that put us in an altered state of consciousness.
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ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES
Repairing things yourself will become more important in the future. On the one hand, because developers and producers intentionally integrate errors and predetermined breaking points into products, so-called planned obsolescence. And on the other hand, raw materials are becoming increasingly scarce and thus more expensive. With the availability of open source software and 3D printers, this trend can be counteracted, in the spirit of the Repair Cafés: repair instead of throwing away!
CONTINUUM OF GRADIENTS
In a square room, panels equipped with loudspeakers hang from the ceiling. A generative system with 16-channel audio produces a perpetual soundscape. In regular cycles, samples are stored in the system, ready again as a starting point for the next run. In this way, the system continues to evolve over generations.
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LIFEFORM 001
NEUE MATERIALISMEN
ELEKTRONISCHE KLAENGE
THE MUSHROOM SPEAKS
HALO
Together with Liwaii Keller this real-time video performance was performed. The video material used was self-made with different liquids and digitally edited.
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JUICY GRAY
Bernhard Zünkeler: Joicy Gray, Plädoyer für einen Atlas der Kreativität. Brand Eins Medien AG, Hamburg (2022).
ISBN 978-3-949712-12-8
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CROP – FORGOTTEN SHORES EP
The Forgotten Shores EP is the first release of the Agentur Spinnerei and marks the starting point. It’s a balanced mix of house and dub techno elements that invites you to listen or dance, floating and driving at the same time.
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GENERATIVE GESTALTUNG
Benedikt Gross, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni: Generative Gestaltung, Entwerfen, Programmieren und Visualisieren mit Javascript in p5.js. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Meinz (2018).
ISBN 978-3-87439-902-9
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SOLAR CV
These solar cells produce a voltage of 0-5 volts. These are very suitable to be used as control voltage (CV) in the Modular Synthesizer. For example, a changing light source can influence a filter (VCF), the pitch of an oscillator (VCO) or the volume of an amplifier (VCA). When an autonomous patch is influenced by external sensors, it is also called an interactive generative system.
Another possibility is to feed the solar cell directly into an audio amplifier. Then e.g. the frequencies of LED’s can be made audible. Click the link below to watch an example.
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COLABOR MODUL
Soundlab is one of the 24 +Colabor modules that offer the opportunity to practice other disciplines and media, reflect on design processes in depth and learn new methods. In this specific SoundLab module, students build an electronic instrument, explore its sonic universe, and share their results with others.
REPAIR THINGS
SHAREBOX
WATER ROCKET
With a few household items like a bicycle pump and a PET bottle we build a water rocket. The ideal relationship between air pressure and water volume will be investigated. Having fun while learning motivates everyone equally.
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BUSHCRAFT 101
Dave Canterbury: Bushcraft 101, Überleben in der Wildnis, Der ultimative Survival Praxisführer. Anaconda Verlag, München.
ISBN 978-3-7306-0440-3
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STORAGE
My static works are stored here. They are inspired by physics, mathematics and technology and focus on vibrations, resonances, feedbacks, deposits and noise.
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KOMPOSITION – V2
Four CD players play different tracks randomly. They are thereby in an endless loop. Over the entire duration of the exhibition, the soundscape is constantly recombined.
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OPEN DESIGN NOW
PHYSICAL COMPUTING
An Arduino or similar micro-controller is a quick way to breathe life into a prototype. It’s not just a physical prototyping board, but a system of an easy-to-understand programming environment, a project hub for inspiration, and a world-wide and helpful forum. So what are you waiting for?
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RADIATOR
The sound of stroking a radiator was combined here with a modified drum machine. The video layer shows the surface of a lake, interrupted by vertical black lines and overlaid by noise images caused by an analog tube TV. The symmetry and asymmetry of image and sound was investigated.
DIY MICROSCOPE
We take apart a disused webcam and turn the lens so that we get a macro lens. Then we build a stage from laser cutting parts and mount the modified webcam. In no time at all we have a wonderfully functioning DIY microscope, which invites you to dive into the wonderful world of the microcosm and document your discoveries directly on your computer.
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SUBSTRAT
In my aesthetic research, I rely on terms, theories, and references that are summarized here under this heading. They are my favorite books, films and general sources that give me the ground on which I build my open knowledge platform.
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HAINBACH
He is a composer and performer of electronic music and creates versatile soundscapes with test equipment and special devices. With his playful curiosity and love of experimentation, he also searches for aesthetic sound in non-musical territories. With his tutorials on Youtube he brings experimental music techniques closer to his wide audience. Photo was taken by + NANI GUTIERREZ +
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COLLECT
What are the things I collect on my journey? Are they information, experiences and consciousness against entropy? Or am I collecting waves in quantum field, material to shape space and time? Under this heading I collect what inspires me. Inspired by + Frederick +.
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MAKERS
Chris Anderson: MAKERS, The New Industrial Revolution. Goodreads.
ISBN 978-0307720955
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BEAUTY ALGORITHM
We go in search of the beauty in algorithms and discuss what effect computer-generated images have on us, what is perceived as aesthetic and why. Can beauty be captured in a mathematical formula? To finde out that, students created sketches and ideas with pen and paper and do the final realization via a browser-based software called p5.js.
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HANDMADE ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Nicolas Collins: Handmade Electronic Music, The Art Of Hardware Hacking. Routledge, New York (2020, 3. Edition).
ISBN 978-0-36-721010-6
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TRAUMFAENGER
Marlo Morgan: Traumfänger, Die Reise einer Frau in die Welt der Aborigines. Goldmann, München (1994, 58. Auflage).
ISBN 978-3-442-43740-5
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SOUND STUDIES
Holger Schulze: Sound Studies: Traditionen, Methoden, Desiderate. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld (2008).
ISBN 978-3-89942-894-0
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FABLAB
FabLab stands for Fabrication Laboratory and was developed by + NEIL GERSHENFELD + (MIT) as a course of study. The concept is simple: it gives creatives access to digitally controlled machines, such as: 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC milling machines – very easily, quickly and for everyone!
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EXPLORE
Both in the laboratory as well as in the wild, I search for new discoveries. These are accumulated here: new life forms, atmospheric measurements, performative metaphysics, tools and strategies in the field between sound art and electronic music.
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DINGE DRUCKEN
Claire Warnier, Dries Verbruggen von Unfold, Sven Ehmann, Robert Klanten: Dinge Drucken, wie 3D-Drucken das Design verändert. Gestalten Verlag, Berlin (2014).
ISBN 978-3-89955-529-5
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PHASOR NOISE
HYDRO PHONE
Underwater microphone.
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DIGITAL MANUFACTURING
With 3D printers and digital production machines, we have arrived at production unit one. This means that parts are produced just in time and no longer in large quantities in stock. But it also means that we can break new ground in terms of production location, spare parts and production reliability.
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KYMATIK
Hans Jenny: Kymatik, Wellen und Schwingungen mit ihrer Struktur und Dynamik. Basilius Presse AG, Basel (1972).
ISBN 3-85-560-031-7
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DER PILZ AM ENDE DER WELT
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: Der Pilz am Ende der Welt. MSB Matthes & Seitz, Berlin (2022, 6. Auflage).
ISBN 978-3-95757-809-9
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SOLARO PHONE
Turns light into Sound.
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FREDERICK
The story of Frederick, who doesn’t collect grains and nuts for the winter like all the other mice, but instead collects rays of sunshine, colors and words – i.e. dreams and hope. What am I collecting?
Leo Lionni: Frederick. Beltz & Gelberg (2004).
ISBN 978-3-407-76007-4
BUILDING BRIDGES
After theoretical input on the statics of bridges, participants develop a model bridge themselves, which is then exposed to a load test. The bridge consists of one or more modules made of cardboard, which are drawn with CAD software and cut with the laser.
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