hi all,
a concert announcement,
best, adc
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SOCIETY FOR NONTRIVIAL PURSUITS
Students, alumni and friends of the class for Generative Art / Computational
Art (Alberto de Campo) at UdK Berlin Works with analog, digital, and hybrid
systems which exhibit nontrivial behavior in time and are open to outside
influence.
Date: SAT Feb 18 2012
Time: 20.00 CET
Location: FEED
Hobrechtsraße 65 | Hinterhaus, Etage 4 | 12047
Berlin-Neukölln
U-Bahnhof Hermannplatz
http://www.6554.de/
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Complex behaviors, whether in feedback systems, chaotic circuits, circular
causality loops in cybernetics, and neural models have been explored by central
protagonists of experimental music. The Society for Nontrivial Pursuits
(Alberto de Campo, Hannes Hoelzl, and students, alumni and associates of the
class Generative Art / Computational Art at UdK Berlin, and others) explores
the possibility spaces of such systems for experimental performance: They adapt
current developments like Rob Hordijk’s chaotic synthesizers (the Benjolin and
the Blippoo box), Peter Blasser’s hybrid designs; they design, build and
program their own performance systems based on a variety of sensors, analog
electronics, and software synthesis and processing.
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Yair Elazar Glotman – AD-LIB
+AD-LIB – a solo journey, Exploring the different trails and approaches
leading to music performing. walking the border lines between composed material
and free form improvisation, between tonal harmony and abstract sounds.
Tobias Purfürst – foursquared
foursquared is is permanent development. Multilayered sound processes are
created by programming conditions for their unfolding in time, and in
performance, they are controlled from a pad controller, and at times left to
their own random devices.
Society for Nontrivial Pursuits - NETZWERKMUSIK
Code-snippets that create algorithmic sound patterns are written live and run
on several laptops; the sounds can jump between the laptops; every player gets
all the codelets for responding to, extending, and rewriting them … and
unamplified laptops can be full-blown instruments!
Pierce Warnecke – Textures
Textures is a live audiovisual performance that uses found objects, field
recordings and video samples. Each performance is unique in that the material
is collected on spot, then re-composed in realtime. It is an exploration of
granular surfaces, aged objects and deteriorated materials that have been
collected because of their rich textures. Materials selected for the piece are
man-made items that have undergone sufficient deterioration to no longer be
recognizable. These decontextualized objects have lost any signified meaning,
usefulness and identity: they are in fact ideally abstract. The object is
re-contextualized within the performance, in an abstract narrative. It is
paired with video and audio samples taken from the place the object was found.
The result is an audiovisual study of the effect of time on matter:
modification, deterioration and finally disappearance.
Sara Hildebrand Marques Lopes – Fidgety Blip
(Don´t play with food).not
For people creating lakes of mashed potatoes, shiplets from croquettes,
splitting peas, separating side dishes, sorting out tomatoes, and keeping
brussels sprouts in check pouches. A wobbly jello symphony as if from childhood
days.
Karin Lustenberger – Biorhythms Rocking
What do K.L.s biorhythms from 2008-2012, random camera footage of room 111,
field recordings of Kottbusser Tor, and coils sensing the fields of power
supplies have in common? In this audiovisual performance you can find out.
BERLINJOLINEN-ORCHESTER
The Benjolin is a „bent by design“ analog synth circuit created by Rob Hordijk,
which exhibits chaotic behavior in subtly influenceable shadings. The Society
for Nontrivial Pursuits has built a pool of Benjolins to explore the
possibilities for ensemble playing. The orchestra is extended with other
idiosyncratic sound generators: the Cracklebox (designed by M. Waisvisz), and
the Blippoo Box (designed by R. Hordijk)______________________________________________
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