Katharina Hoppe, Thomas Lemke: Neue Materialismen zur Einführung. Junius Verlag, Hamburg (2021).
ISBN 978-3-96060-322-1
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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HANDMADE ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Nicolas Collins: Handmade Electronic Music, The Art Of Hardware Hacking. Routledge, New York (2020, 3. Edition).
ISBN 978-0-36-721010-6
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QUANTUM FIELD
Performance by Chris Obrist during the Netzwerkwoche in February 2023.
Video was made by + IVA LAKIC +
To watch the video on Instagram klick the link below.
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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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METEORIT
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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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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CONSUMERISM
Humans are defacing and threatening their own habitat through their consumer behavior and have thus arrived in the age of the Anthropocene. In the module we research problems and discuss alternative, sustainable solutions.
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CHAOS AMP
There are two different circuits in two cubes connected with a cable. Chaos are two oscillating circuits that modulate each other. The pitch can be manipulated by a photoresistor (LDR), and the pulse width by a potentiometer. The second potentiometer is used to set the voltage that supplies current to the oscillating circuit. This allows you to create versatile and very interesting sound. The other circuit is a simple amplifier with a speaker.
We built these cubes in the + TINKER TEC GIRLS + workshop at HSLU. For more information klick the link below.
BUSHCRAFT 101
Dave Canterbury: Bushcraft 101, Überleben in der Wildnis, Der ultimative Survival Praxisführer. Anaconda Verlag, München.
ISBN 978-3-7306-0440-3
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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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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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STORAGE
My static works are stored here. They are inspired by physics, mathematics and technology and focus on vibrations, resonances, feedbacks, deposits and noise.
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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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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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JUICY GRAY
Bernhard Zünkeler: Joicy Gray, Plädoyer für einen Atlas der Kreativität. Brand Eins Medien AG, Hamburg (2022).
ISBN 978-3-949712-12-8
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GENERATIVE GESTALTUNG
Benedikt Gross, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni: Generative Gestaltung, Entwerfen, Programmieren und Visualisieren mit Javascript in p5.js. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Meinz (2018).
ISBN 978-3-87439-902-9
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DINGE DRUCKEN
Claire Warnier, Dries Verbruggen von Unfold, Sven Ehmann, Robert Klanten: Dinge Drucken, wie 3D-Drucken das Design verändert. Gestalten Verlag, Berlin (2014).
ISBN 978-3-89955-529-5
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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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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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A HOUSE FULL OF MUSIC
Ralf Beil, Peter Kraut: A House Full of Music, Strategien in Musik und Kunst. Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (2012).
ISBN 978-3-7757-3318-2
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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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SOUND STUDIES
Holger Schulze: Sound Studies: Traditionen, Methoden, Desiderate. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld (2008).
ISBN 978-3-89942-894-0
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FREDERICK
The story of Frederick, who doesn’t collect grains and nuts for the winter like all the other mice, but instead collects rays of sunshine, colors and words – i.e. dreams and hope. What am I collecting?
Leo Lionni: Frederick. Beltz & Gelberg (2004).
ISBN 978-3-407-76007-4
GEO PHONE
Detects vibrations in the ground.
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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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TRANSCENDENT WAVES
CONTINUUM OF GRADIENTS
In a square room, panels equipped with loudspeakers hang from the ceiling. A generative system with 16-channel audio produces a perpetual soundscape. In regular cycles, samples are stored in the system, ready again as a starting point for the next run. In this way, the system continues to evolve over generations.
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DER PILZ AM ENDE DER WELT
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: Der Pilz am Ende der Welt. MSB Matthes & Seitz, Berlin (2022, 6. Auflage).
ISBN 978-3-95757-809-9
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SOLARO PHONE
Turns light into Sound.
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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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BUILDING BRIDGES
After theoretical input on the statics of bridges, participants develop a model bridge themselves, which is then exposed to a load test. The bridge consists of one or more modules made of cardboard, which are drawn with CAD software and cut with the laser.
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SHAREBOX
DIY MICROSCOPE
We take apart a disused webcam and turn the lens so that we get a macro lens. Then we build a stage from laser cutting parts and mount the modified webcam. In no time at all we have a wonderfully functioning DIY microscope, which invites you to dive into the wonderful world of the microcosm and document your discoveries directly on your computer.
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HAINBACH
He is a composer and performer of electronic music and creates versatile soundscapes with test equipment and special devices. With his playful curiosity and love of experimentation, he also searches for aesthetic sound in non-musical territories. With his tutorials on Youtube he brings experimental music techniques closer to his wide audience. Photo was taken by + NANI GUTIERREZ +
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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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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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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!
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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TRAUMFAENGER
Marlo Morgan: Traumfänger, Die Reise einer Frau in die Welt der Aborigines. Goldmann, München (1994, 58. Auflage).
ISBN 978-3-442-43740-5
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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.
MEDIENTHEORIEN KOMPAKT
SGNTR
The audio material of generative processes was processed for this purpose and compiled into 10 tracks. These ambient cinematic soundscapes are like an empty promise, have no beginning as well as no end.
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