sonic surrounds blog

vera • April 21st, 2008

Just discovered Musician and sound engineer Nick Mariette´s blog sonic surrounds. Run yet for a couple of years, Nick has slowly but surely built up an archive on sound tech, ambisonics, coding, hardware and sound art.

patashnik a+b

marcus • April 6th, 2008

This piece will be performed at the Rundgang 08 exhibition at the school of Art & Design, Kassel. Follow this link » to see other works of this exhibition.



patashnik a/b is an audio/visual live drawing performance. The two parts of the piece tell a story about an uncertain voyage into space. Without any prepared video material the story is told in figurative images and abstract visuals, combined with a soundtrack of granulated field recordings and electronic music tracks.

All images and animations are created live on a graphics tablet with our completely rewritten animation software NervousInk3. We're working on a public version, which will be available soon for Mac/ Windows.

» Photos: setup set, show set

» Videos: patashnik a/b trailer, patashnik a/b - full length recording

by Vera-Maria Glahn and Marcus Wendt

Many thanks to:
Matthias Siegert, Host & Curator
Fluctuating Images, Gallery/ Location
Myriam Kunz, Photographer

The "Loop" animation effect is partly inspired by Golan Levin's Yellowtail (1998).

 

This piece will be performed at the Rundgang 08 exhibition at the school of Art & Design, Kassel. Follow this link » to see other works of this exhibition.

COH, Raster-Noton Labelabend

marcus • February 3rd, 2008

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Signal, Raster-Noton Labelabend

marcus • February 3rd, 2008

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Frank Bretschneider, Raster-Noton Labelabend

marcus • February 3rd, 2008

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Frank Bretschneider, Live

marcus • February 3rd, 2008

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Gestures On Sound

marcus • January 29th, 2008

An older piece, i'm going to revisit with Vera soon for an upcoming performance in Stuttgart

Still loving the music Arran had put together ....

Supercollider 3.1

marcus • November 5th, 2007

Hooray! I just noticed my audio-programming language of choice recieved has significant up date in the last days. You can download it here

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.

SuperCollider was written by James McCartney (audiosynth.com) over a period of many years. It is now an open source GPL’d project maintained and developed by James and various others. It is used by musicians, scientists, and artists working with sound.

Dokfest 2007 - program online

vera • November 4th, 2007


I´ve been a bit absent during the last days, and the reason was my involvement with the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, which will happen Nov 13-18! Now the program is finally online ! Besides documentaries and experimental films, the program features the exhibition MONITORING, showing installative video and media art works, and a range of audiovisual performances, for which Marcus and me where part of the selection team.

Curated from about 100 submission, Dokfest presents 4 nights of experimental concerts between performative art and club culture by German and international artists. To give you a taste here’s the lineup with some links to sites and videos. Find a professionals accreditation form here

Wed, Nov 14

Protocol I by dextro.org and Martijn Tellinga (Vienna / Amsterdam) Aviorama by MFO and Repeatbeat (Leipzig)

Thu, Nov 15

DOT and Minimalismus by xx+xy visuals with Ziv Jacob / and and Jean Marc Caimi (Rome)
Insomniac City (Screening) by Ran Slavin (Tel Aviv)
“2d.dual” by Marie Basten, Fabian Valentin. DJ: Pat Kramer (Kassel)

Fri, Nov 16

CV_TV by Siegert & Kysela (Stuttgart)
hammerhaus by Theinert & Hanfreich (Stuttgart)
Shiftpitcher (Dresden) and Tabledance Soundsystem: Roger Berkeley & Jerksta with MC Mezcla (Göttingen) and Rodyho (Hamburg)

Sat, Nov 17

Turntable Improvisations by dj sniff (Amsterdam)
Fraumitmuskeln with Christof Lutz and Sebastian Stamm (Kassel)
M.i.t.c.h. (Rotterdam)

DOT – xx+xy visuals

vera • September 18th, 2007

A beautiful performance project by the italian duo xx+xy visuals, Sladzana Bogeska and Giuseppe Pradella. The delicate sounds are by Ziv Jacob

The three will present DOT in the Audiovisual Performance program of the 24th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival which Marcus and me were proud to co-curate. The 2007 program of the festival will be published soon – i´ll keep you posted.

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