ELIN PIEL

As an incredibly talented synthesizer enthusiast, living in Gothenburg Sweden, she primarily creates atmospheric textures and deep soundscapes. But she also likes to integrate layered beats and complex rhythmic patterns. When you get involved with her music, it’s like going on an immersive journey, you take off to float and drift.

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DEVOUR V4

Feedback loops was made with piezo elements, solar panel, coil, neon light, fx pedal, chaos synths and other stuff. This performance was shown as a prelude to the SoundLab Module 2022 at HSLU D&K.

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KOMPOSITION – V1

For an exhibition was created 21 drawings, with graphite on paper (64 x 64 cm). For the frottage technique was made a plate of gibs with a wave-like structure.

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REPAIR THINGS

Can you imagine how a rolling suitcase with a broken wheel sounds on a snowy spit-covered road? The sound of things often tells us whether they are still running smoothly or not. Click on the picture for more and read the hole story of Ursinas’s rolling suitcase.

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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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ELECTROMAGNETO PHONE

Priezor from + LOM + is an open-source passive antenna to make electromagnetic fields audible. It is very sensitive and detects low level events in the atmosphere. All electronic devices in the home or for outdoors, e.g. mobile phones, flat screens, sockets, etc. emit electromagnetic waves and sound very different. Which source sounds the most exciting to you? How can we explain the different volumes? And how do you perceive these devices now that you can hear them?

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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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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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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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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!

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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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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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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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SHAREBOX

The sharebox contains everything I share with my community: templates, field recordings, sample libraries and of course tutorials. You can download and access the content of the sharebox with a subscription at Patreon. So what are you waiting for?

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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?

Curious now? Watch the full movie by clicking the link below.

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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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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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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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