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 …
Werkschau & Vortrag:
Am 29. Februar 2008 sind in der Ausstellungshalle der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg meine bisherigen Hauptwerke zu sehen. Neben der Werkschau steht das interaktive kybernetische Rednerpult “kIII” im Mittelpunkt der Präsentation, das Gegenstand meiner postgraduierten Diplomarbeit zur sprachtopologischen Untersuchung politischer Reden im öffentlichen Raum ist (siehe Auszug aus: “der politische Raum der Stimme” weiter unten).
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“Politician’s Speech” is an interactive installation. People can make a speech about a momentous political topic by gesturing. Important political speeches are no longer for les hômmes d’État only, now everyone is invited to act and give speeches.
There are distance sensors built into the microphones, which read the gestures, feeding this data into a microcontrolled sensorBox (→ ACSensorizer), which converts the signals to harmonized MIDI data and sends them …
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 …
I am very pleased and happy to announce, that an adapted work of kII (and the Kontaktstation!) will be shown at the Cybersonica SOUNDWAVES Exhibition in the Kinetica Museum in London from May 17th to June 30th. kII (2.1) will be changed to fit the chances of the exhibition space: the idea is to take the work one step further. There will be one device to …
[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 …
One thing that really annoys me when I’m programming the elsewise great Lego Mindstorms® Set, is the need to upload the firmware and all programs again, when one has to exchange the batteries. This has been fixed for the brand-new NXT System, but how to deal with that for the oder RCX? Yep. Connecting a Power Supply is easy:
I screwed up the case and found that …
I experimented a bit with capacity based sensors and proximity detection. So I stumbled upon two very nice chips from Quantum Technologies: the QT113, a touch detection IC based on Kirchhoff’s Current [...]
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 …
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, …
I’ve released a binary SDCC installer and written a step-by-step tutorial how to use Xcode 2 as IDE for developing C-Applications.
Now Microchip Application Development is getting really easy on a [...]
