Dear Spectrites, I would like to invite you to explore two new pieces created for web browsers.
'Kontakt (simultan)' is a piece on an experimental waiting process taking place inside the studio space of Reagenz, Graz (AT). Here, a glass plate with collected lichen fragments is automatically irrigated and photographed four times a day, perhaps producing an extremely slow growth, that is revealed as a time series of the photographs. The process can be followed on the Mastodon social media account https://botsin.space/@kontakt , showing the daily rhythms and perhaps a long-term evolution. The photographs are augmented by text lines contributed by people reacting to an ongoing open call, reflecting on waiting and on making contact. **You are kindly invited** to read and participate in the open call at https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1154218/1294325 'in|fibrillae', premiered at this week's xCoAx, is a sound poem created together with Nayarí Castillo. It is accessible at https://www.sciss.de/exp/infibrillae/ . The piece is a reconfiguration of an audio-visual installation into the online browser space. It is loosely based on a previous work in|filtration, unravelling it into hundreds and thousands of small fibres, in order to transpose the original materiality for a personal space. in|fibrillae is about exchange between otherwise disconnected and “uncommunicative” segments, departing from forms of spatiality: the distinction between a common space and an individual (or inner) space. The common is a repertoire of shared topological forms for sound structures. It is individuated through genetically programmed synthetic sounds, yielding the distinct corpora of virtual sub-spaces. The pure sonic layer is complemented by a layer of animated digital image and text fragments. The images are based on wax paper prints taken from cut tree branches in Caracas, and the bulge that the trees regrow around the cut producing a visible boundary surface. Each sub-space corresponds to a poem, a set of words that belong together. They appear in permutations inside the trunk drawings. To our knowledge, in|fibrillae is the first piece to use scsynth.wasm, running the SuperCollider sound synthesis engine through WebAssembly in the browser. It requires a recent Firefox or Chrome/Chromium desktop browser. Both pieces are meant to run for a long time, and currently, they also have physical installation forms at the facade of our art space Reagenz. Here 'Kontakt (simultan)' is showing the current photograph alongside a month old one, allowing one to explore the changes through stereoscopic optical lenses. Best regards, Hanns Holger Rutz
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