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Varia Zoosystematica Profundorum
Experimental studies in deep sea communication
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Alberto de Campo and the Generative Art/Computational Art class, University for the Arts Berlin
Installation
Großer Wasserspeicher
18 September - 26 September 2010
2 - 8pm
Opening: 17 September 2010, 6pm
Below ca. 700m the deep sea is dark, the only light sources being bioluminescent animals; thus it seems very likely that much communication in this habitat is acoustic. Inspired by the work of Vilem Flusser and Louis Bec, we have developed models for this communication: a number of agents (modeled creatures) send symbols ('letters') to each other, assemble them into longer chains ('words'), and sometimes express these words by emitting sound, light or motion patterns. Some creatures generate rhythmic pulse sequences, some almost melodic phrases. Others let hues of colors flash over their skins, while others again float up and down in space in response to the conversation between them. Others let hues of colors flash over their skins, while others again float up and down in space in response to the conversation between them.
Despite the remoteness of this habitat, these observable communication forms may well be inadvertently influenced by human intervention: Like some birds adopt melodies from car alarms (or, as Wolfgang Mueller has shown, Norwegian starlings are passing on fragments of Schwitters' Ursonate their ancestors have been hearing), our creatures adopt morse code time patterns they may have heard (or sensed electromegnetically) from submarines. Simulating aspects of animal behavior allows studying phenomena that are difficult to observe in the wild; beyond that, given the freedom of such works in artistic contexts, one may also find that the strangeness of the unknown reflects the human world and its subjective experience in unexpected ways.
Artists:
Alberto de Campo (AT), Hannes Hoelzl (I), Renate Wieser (DE), Bernhard Bauch (AT), Constantin Engelmann (DE), Dominik Hildebrand (DE), Akitoshi Honda (JP), Florian Kuehnle (DE), Ingrid Ladurner (I), Karin Lustenberger (CH), Rita Macedo (POR), Naomi Mulla (DE), Sarah Rechberger (AT), Johanna Tauber (DE), Andre Wakko (BRA), Christian Zollner (AT); Peter Bartz (DE), Tiago Cutileiro(POR), Annie Goh (Singapur), Tobias Purfuerst (DE)
This exhibition is part of the SuperCollider Symposium 2010
Venue: Großer Wasserspeicher, Belforter Straße
U2 Senefelderplatz., M2 Metzer Straße
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ohrenstrand auf dem pfefferberg: singuhr – salons 2010
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The singuhr – sound gallery salons address central questions concerning installative sound art. In light of the fact that the genre is increasingly prolific, and inspired by a setting marked by the individualisation of artistic positions, the salons spark a discourse that unites theory and practice. Artists, cultural intermediaries and academics discuss forms of performative spatial investigation, questions surrounding the reception and presentation of sound art and the meaning and media archaeological modes of working and thinking.
ohrenstrand auf dem pfefferberg: singuhr – salon 3
Wednesday, 22 September at 8 p.m.
Sound – Space – EPHEMER
Melanie Uerlings in conversation with Serge Baghdassarians, Boris Baltschun and Björn Gottstein
Venue:
Pfefferberg Haus 13
Schönhauser Allee 176
10119 Berlin
www.ohrenstrand net
free entry
Organised by singuhr e.v.
An ohrenstrand.net event
Ohrenstrand.net is supported by the Netzwerk Neue Musik, a project funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Bundeskulturstiftung). Further supporters: The Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs (Der Regierende Bürgermeister - Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten).
In cooperation with Pfefferberg Stadtkultur
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SUPERCOLLIDER SYMPOSIUM 2010
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Concerts at Kleiner Wasserspeicher
Kleiner Wasserspeicher - Concert 1
Friday 24 September, 7pm
Daisuke Ishida "Erratic Flow"
Paulo Ferreira Lopes "de Profundis II" for violin and electronics
L. Scott Price "Veils"
PyoungRyang Ko "Fantaisie-Impromptu électroacoustique" for flute and percussion
Olaf Hochherz "Hoffnungsträger"
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano "A Very Fractal Cat, Somewhat T[h]rilled"
Tom Hall & Katy Price "under the yoke", for flute, trombone, guitar, percussion, narrator and laptop
ensemble unitedberlin
Kleiner Wasserspeicher - Concert 2
Saturday 25 September, 7pm
Andre Bartetzki "String-Theory" for violin and electronics
Sergio Luque "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll was never meant to be like this"
Nicola Buso "Wassersprache" for live electronics with live coding inroads
José Miguel Fernandez "M-brana" for percussion, double bass and live electronics based on instrumental motion capture
Robin Meier "The Body is a Vessel" for Apnoe Diver and Computer
Quiet Noise Quartet “untitled”
ensemble unitedberlin
Venue: Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Diedenhofer Straße
U2 Senefelderplatz., M2 Metzer Straße
10/8€
For more information about the SuperCollider Symposium 2010, see: www.supercollider2010.de
SuperColllider Symposium 2010 is organised by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakoustische Musik (DEGEM) e.V. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, supported by UdK Berlin, TU Berlin, Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin, Förderband Kulturinitiative and .HBC.
Varia Zoosystematica Profundorum
Experimental studies in deep sea communication
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Alberto de Campo and the Generative Art/Computational Art class, University for the Arts Berlin
Installation
Großer Wasserspeicher
18 September - 26 September 2010
2 - 8pm
Opening: 17 September 2010, 6pm
Below ca. 700m the deep sea is dark, the only light sources being bioluminescent animals; thus it seems very likely that much communication in this habitat is acoustic. Inspired by the work of Vilem Flusser and Louis Bec, we have developed models for this communication: a number of agents (modeled creatures) send symbols ('letters') to each other, assemble them into longer chains ('words'), and sometimes express these words by emitting sound, light or motion patterns. Some creatures generate rhythmic pulse sequences, some almost melodic phrases. Others let hues of colors flash over their skins, while others again float up and down in space in response to the conversation between them. Others let hues of colors flash over their skins, while others again float up and down in space in response to the conversation between them.
Despite the remoteness of this habitat, these observable communication forms may well be inadvertently influenced by human intervention: Like some birds adopt melodies from car alarms (or, as Wolfgang Mueller has shown, Norwegian starlings are passing on fragments of Schwitters' Ursonate their ancestors have been hearing), our creatures adopt morse code time patterns they may have heard (or sensed electromegnetically) from submarines. Simulating aspects of animal behavior allows studying phenomena that are difficult to observe in the wild; beyond that, given the freedom of such works in artistic contexts, one may also find that the strangeness of the unknown reflects the human world and its subjective experience in unexpected ways.
Artists:
Alberto de Campo (AT), Hannes Hoelzl (I), Renate Wieser (DE), Bernhard Bauch (AT), Constantin Engelmann (DE), Dominik Hildebrand (DE), Akitoshi Honda (JP), Florian Kuehnle (DE), Ingrid Ladurner (I), Karin Lustenberger (CH), Rita Macedo (POR), Naomi Mulla (DE), Sarah Rechberger (AT), Johanna Tauber (DE), Andre Wakko (BRA), Christian Zollner (AT); Peter Bartz (DE), Tiago Cutileiro(POR), Annie Goh (Singapur), Tobias Purfuerst (DE)
This exhibition is part of the SuperCollider Symposium 2010
Venue: Großer Wasserspeicher, Belforter Straße
U2 Senefelderplatz., M2 Metzer Straße
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ohrenstrand auf dem pfefferberg: singuhr – salons 2010
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The singuhr – sound gallery salons address central questions concerning installative sound art. In light of the fact that the genre is increasingly prolific, and inspired by a setting marked by the individualisation of artistic positions, the salons spark a discourse that unites theory and practice. Artists, cultural intermediaries and academics discuss forms of performative spatial investigation, questions surrounding the reception and presentation of sound art and the meaning and media archaeological modes of working and thinking.
ohrenstrand auf dem pfefferberg: singuhr – salon 3
Wednesday, 22 September at 8 p.m.
Sound – Space – EPHEMER
Melanie Uerlings in conversation with Serge Baghdassarians, Boris Baltschun and Björn Gottstein
Venue:
Pfefferberg Haus 13
Schönhauser Allee 176
10119 Berlin
www.ohrenstrand net
free entry
Organised by singuhr e.v.
An ohrenstrand.net event
Ohrenstrand.net is supported by the Netzwerk Neue Musik, a project funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Bundeskulturstiftung). Further supporters: The Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs (Der Regierende Bürgermeister - Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten).
In cooperation with Pfefferberg Stadtkultur
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SUPERCOLLIDER SYMPOSIUM 2010
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Concerts at Kleiner Wasserspeicher
Kleiner Wasserspeicher - Concert 1
Friday 24 September, 7pm
Daisuke Ishida "Erratic Flow"
Paulo Ferreira Lopes "de Profundis II" for violin and electronics
L. Scott Price "Veils"
PyoungRyang Ko "Fantaisie-Impromptu électroacoustique" for flute and percussion
Olaf Hochherz "Hoffnungsträger"
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano "A Very Fractal Cat, Somewhat T[h]rilled"
Tom Hall & Katy Price "under the yoke", for flute, trombone, guitar, percussion, narrator and laptop
ensemble unitedberlin
Kleiner Wasserspeicher - Concert 2
Saturday 25 September, 7pm
Andre Bartetzki "String-Theory" for violin and electronics
Sergio Luque "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll was never meant to be like this"
Nicola Buso "Wassersprache" for live electronics with live coding inroads
José Miguel Fernandez "M-brana" for percussion, double bass and live electronics based on instrumental motion capture
Robin Meier "The Body is a Vessel" for Apnoe Diver and Computer
Quiet Noise Quartet “untitled”
ensemble unitedberlin
Venue: Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Diedenhofer Straße
U2 Senefelderplatz., M2 Metzer Straße
10/8€
For more information about the SuperCollider Symposium 2010, see: www.supercollider2010.de
SuperColllider Symposium 2010 is organised by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakoustische Musik (DEGEM) e.V. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, supported by UdK Berlin, TU Berlin, Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin, Förderband Kulturinitiative and .HBC.