NEWSFLASH SOUNDMUSEUM.FM / 17 November ‘08
New groupexhibition curated by Shintaro Miyazaki
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NEW GROUPEXHIBITION
“WHAT ABOUT THE GIBBS PHENOMENOM?”
from 17 november – 14 december exhibition by Curator Shintaro Miyazaki
with artists: Kim Cascone, Christophe Charles, Daisuke Ishida, Greg
Haines, Kyoka, Miwon, Stephane Leonard, Catherine Fern Lewis and
Nicolas Wiese.
The Gibbs phenomenon, which is a techno-mathematical problem, builds
the initiation of the curatorial concept behind this group exhibition.
To see his exhibition for soundmuseum.fm please click on the below
link and go to the gallery:
http://www.soundmuseum.fm
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What about the Gibbs phenomenon?
The Gibbs phenomenon, which is a techno-mathematical problem, builds
the initiation of the curatorial concept behind this group exhibition
with 9 international soundartists: Kim Cascone, Christophe Charles,
Daisuke Ishida, Greg Haines, Kyoka, Miwon, Stephane Leonard, Catherine
Fern Lewis and Nicolas Wiese.
Named after the American physicist J. Willard Gibbs (1839 - 1903), who
was one of the first, who made a description of it (1899), the Gibbs
phenomenon appears basically, when one tries to mathematically
approximate a discontinuous jump function like a square wave with
continuous periodic waves like a sine wave and builds a disruptive
element. According to Jean Baptiste Fourier (1768 - 1830) one of the
grandfathers of our electronic synthesizers and also the computer,
every physical phenomenon is composed by periodic sine wave signals.
At the turnpoints of the discontinuity (the edges of the square wave)
disruptive waves are appearing when increasingly approximating the
square wave with a series of sine wave harmonics. This small dirty
waves are artistically interpreted disruptions, disturbances and
errors, which appear between the analog and the digital, between the
real-physics and the symbolic code, which means also between nature
and computer.
Listening to these artifacts, which are called ringing artifacts is
possible: They appear when audio compressing (i.e in MP3-format) short
sound-impulses and sound like pre-echos. When asked to describe the
aesthetics of these sounds one should use the term "post-digital" a
term which was introduced by Kim Cascone into the discourse of
experimental music. They sound like the re-entry of the analog in the
digital world - this means very erroneous.
The curated soundartists were provided with 10 short soundfiles, which
contain an increasing distortion of a originally clean but then
gradually compressed impulse sound and were asked to use these sounds
as material for the own remixes, soundpieces or compositions. The
exhibition contains 9 miniatures of 18.99 seconds.
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Shintaro Miyazaki
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General Information (Mediatheorist, Curator, Soundartist):
http://www.netzknoten.net/
Curation: http://www.la-condition-japonaise.com/
Mediamusic Project: http://endliche-automaten.de/
Podcast (in japanese): http://uraniwasounds-berlin.com/
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