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.

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DARKLIGHT

This performance was staged in the school’s paint room, which smells strongly of oils and solvents. A video sampler was specially programmed for this purpose, which was produced in real time colored light and sound.

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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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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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RESONATE

You can’t teach competencies, you have to acquire them yourself. This is how I understand my task as teacher: to invite, inspire and support the participants in their projects. The main goal is to create an optimal learning environment for everyone and to tune them into their own frequencies so that an orchestra sounds.

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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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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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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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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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CREATIVE SPACE

We focused on the topic of creativity and well-being. What do I need to feel inspired? In which environment am I particularly creative and in flow? We craft, draw, glue, design, fantasize and dream our creative space, where we feel comfortable and where we can develop our visions.

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TINKER TEC GIRLS

In this electronics and prototyping workshop we solder an amplifier and a simple synthesizer circuit. The housing is of laser cut wood, the knobs are made by 3D printer. Learning how to make things yourself is the goal.

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METEORIT

Meteorite is an installation in which the video plane was mapped onto an object made of cardboard, measuring 200 x 105 x 45 cm. The video in the length of about 5 min was played by a DVD player in the loop module.

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STEIM

STEIM (STudio for Electro Instrumental Music) is a center for research and development of new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts, located in Amsterdam. Electronic music in STEIM’s context is always strongly related to the physical and direct actions of a musician. In this tradition, STEIM supports artists by residences, such as composers and performers, but also multimedia and video artists and assists them to develop setups which allow for improvisation and performance with individually designed technology.

+ Nicolas Collins + was the artistic director between 1992 and 1995.

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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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KEYCHAINS

Creating a personalized keychain is a perfect task for beginners to learn a simple CAD software as well as the operation of the 3D printer. He becomes a powerful tool when you can easily draw your visions and bring them immediately into the physical world.

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AUDIO LASER

This experiment investigates how audio can be transmitted through the air. The signal is overlapped with the laser beam (analog circuit) and then picked up by a solar panel. The solar panel is connected to a simple amplifier that drives a loudspeaker. Klick the link below to watch the video on Instagram.

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DEVOUR

At this live performance, which lasted about 30 minutes, a contact microphone was attached to a fluorescent tube. The sound was processed with effects and mixed live with field recordings.

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PHASOR NOISE

This programmed generator produces both image and sound. The spacing of the stripe patterns is converted into sound. What we see is what we hear and vice versa.

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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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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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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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SUZANNE CIANI

In 1970 she became known as a sound designer, composing electronic music for film and commercials. Before that she studied composition at the University of California (Berkeley). Through her boyfriend then, she met + DON BUCHLA +, the synthesizer pioneer and inventor, by which she was strongly influenced. She still works passionately with the Buchla Modular Synthesizer today and gives live concerts worldwide. Also, Suzanne recently received the + 2023 SEAMUS AWARD + congratulations!

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PLASTIC FANTASTIC

With the emergence of plastic, our lives have become simpler, more convenient, easier and more colorful. We encounter objects made of plastic every day: toothbrushes, cordless screwdrivers, extension cords, etc. – Can we say that we are living in the age of plastic?

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