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- 07/05 Cybersonica Soundwaves in London
See & edit iTunes ratings in the Macintosh status menu bar!
Okay, I admit, I love tidy playlists and try to keep my iTunes track ratings quite accurate, so that I can always enjoy my intelligent playlists. There has been a tool called iTunesRatings by Matthew Handley, which disappeared some years ago. Because I think this was a very nice application, I spent some hours programming my own app, …
From September 21st to 26th, I will be at the tweak festival in Limerick, Ireland. You can see the k2.1 talking machine, and I will have a talk at the fantastic this happened… series. Tweak is two! Currently in its second edition, Tweak is an interactive art and live electronic music festival taking place in Limerick City …
After over two years development, I am very proud to present a freely available DIY-SensorBox that provides more features than any other available device for incredible low costs! The new version of the ACSensorizer can produce harmonized and quantized MIDI-Notes or Controller Messages from connected sensors like infrared distance sensors, pressure pads, ribbon-controllers, breath-pressure-sensors, pots, whatever you can think of…
It provides an auto-calibration helper, patch storage, 20 built-in musical …
Now in its sixth year, the London based festival of music, sound, art and technology is a leading international event for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work. The festival brings together a vibrant community of sonic and audiovisual innovation, nurtures new talent and showcases …
‘Kontaktstation’ is an interactive media-installation that translates the intensity of body and skin contact, allowing for up to five people to create harmonized, rhythmic music through touch. The work is shown at Kinetica Museum in London from the 18th May to 29th June.
The main focus of the work is the invitation to make skin-to-skin contact, and discover that a variety of contact points produce different sounds. Skin contact beyond hand …
[multilanguage entry] kII (Kempelen 2.0) is a voice-topological interface for gestural navigation in linguistic space. The hand serves as the speech organ during the articulation process.
The device is operated by means of the sensory determination of the opened state of both hands, their position in space, their relative height, and other parameters which are assigned to the jaw and tongue position in the mouth as well as to pitch and rhythm.
Phoneme …
I just released an application interface “kII” to control the SpeakJet, an integrated robot-voice soundchip from Magnevation, by MIDI.
Some of the features include Jaw-/Tongue-Position Control, Note-pitched voicings, subtractive synthesis built up with the SpeakJet’s five oscillators as well as a small integrated harmonizer module. You can set up a base note and a scale and have therefore absolute control!
kII stands for “Kempelen Two”: Baron Wolfang von Kempelen …
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This wednesday, October the 18th, the Kontaktstation 3.0 has been presented on the Fraunhofer Conference of the Year 2006 in the Maritim Congress Center in Bremen. The Kontaktstation has been redesigned completely to enable a performance of five dancers. A stunning choreography has been developed by the famous belgian choreographer Marc Bogaerts along a soundtrack created by the Berlin based composer Sebastian Morawietz in cooperation with …
m5 sensorizer is an MBHP/MIOS (midibox.org) project to enable processing of sensorized data by Midi.
As I am working with applications and hardware like this since several years, this is the first project I am releasing as open source* together with detailed building instructions using the MidiBox Hardware Platfom (MBHP) of Thorsten Klose and the midibox.org community.
You can find the source code and a fully detailed description along …
[multilanguage entry] On the 19th of August, I’m performing live with my band zeichensprecher at the Kunsthalle in Vienna / project space, Karlsplatz.
The site project space is used for any type of quick, current intervention between installation and performance. As the Kunsthalle Wien’s laboratory it is the only gallery in Austria whose exhibitions and other events also take place in the evenings all year round. The project space …
Am Samstag, den 15. Juli 2006 gibt es ein kurzes Interview im Zündfunk auf Bayern 2 zu hören!
Zum Thema Bayerische Elektrobands hat Laury Reichart ein kurzes Gespräch mit mir in unserem Labor in Nürnberg aufgezeichnet…
Nicht verpassen!
Sa, 15.7.06, vorr. ca. 19 – 20 Uhr
(Genaue Zeiten kurz vor der Sendung auf der Zündfunk-Webseite!)
Bayern 2 Programm für Sa, 15.7.
Am Donnerstag, den 15. Juni 2006 spielt meine Band zeichensprecher im 3hoch3 Aktionskonglomerat (neben dem Resi-Gelände) in Nürnberg im Rahmen der Symposiumswoche “Scharf Schießen: Waffen der Kunst, Kunst der Waffen”.
Die Ausstellung ist ziemlich intressant und der Eintritt ist frei! Also keine Ausreden mehr, nicht ins 3hoch3 Aktionskonglomerat zu kommen!
Hier ist das Programm, ein Anfahrtsplan und alle weiteren Infos:
Update: Bilder und Mitschnitte …
Anlässlich der Blauen Nacht 2006 in Nürnberg (laut Flyer immerhin Deutschlands größter Kunst- und Kulturnacht), habe ich die Kontaktstation um die Versionsnummer 2.0 und zwei Terminals erweitert. Eine Nacht lang konnten Besucher des Fünfeckturmes Körperkontaktmusik produzieren und zu meiner Freude kamen die meisten meiner Aufforderung nach.
“Kontaktstation” ist eine Rauminstallation, die die Intensität von Körperkontakten und Berührungen zweier oder mehrerer Personen in harmonisierte Musik umsetzt. Entweder wird von …
As Cybersonica is continuing these days with(in) the Encompass Festival and b.TWEEN 06 I finally found the time to show you what happened some days ago in London. The Cybersonica 06 Sonic Arts Exhibtion showed some very fine pieces of sonic artworks from Artists around the world. Astonishing, entertaining and thrilling objects could be seen at Phonica Records:
-> Herwig Weiser’s …
I’m back from London! Cybersonica 06 is opening today (Wednesday, 10th May) and there will be a big party going on. I’m feeling a bit sad I cannot be there personally, but there will be online transmissions by CybersonicaTV and there’s a radioshow coming up tonight at Resonance FM broadcasting soundexamples from installation pieces and interviews with many artists including me on the phone talking to Leslie and …
I’m excited being able to announce, that my virtual gate m3 will be shown at Cybersonica 2006, London’s annual festival of electronic music, sonic art and audiovisual fusion. The gate is part of the Cybersonica Sonic Arts Exhibition @ Phonica Records in the center of London. The exhibition is open from 8th until 20th May 2006. The festival goes on until 26th May with various events, such as Cybersonica Conference, …
