Florian Waldner

Unowis - RjDj scene

I made a scene called Unowis for the RjDj app. It accumulates loud sounds from your environment and plays them back using granular synthesis in realtime. Besides that it features some string sounds that are constantly modulated and filtered in various ways.

First public RJC1000 session

The 11th december 2009 saw the first public RJC1000 session ever at eyebeam during the RjDj New York reactive music experience.

RCJ1000 is the working title for a software developed at RjDj, that will ease the creation of reactive music and also has some more special features concerning the networking of RjDj scenes.

On entering the space visitors heard gregorian chants playing on speakers. When they used headphones and their mobile devices running a special RjDj scene, they were sent in warp-speed a thousand years into the future. The gregorian chants were recorded and manipulated in realtime on their devices while more musical elements are added to the chants. The RjDj scenes (Pd patches) are networked and can be controllled from an RJ (Reality Jockey). Check out the recordings: Recording 1 Recording_2

Kids on DSP Release Party Bootleg

The Kids on DSP played a live set at their application release party at RjDj on a multiple speaker and microphone setup. Party guests were part of the music! Have a listen here.

Press reactions to the Kids on DSP: NME, The Guardian, MTV, appleblog.com, geobloggers.com.

Check out dizzybanjo’s blog for a post about the release party.

Vegaschleife at Raumsonde Alpenblick (Munich)

Vegaschleife is an installation that evloved out of the work I was doing with Acid Pauli for RjDj. It is shown from 16.7.-12.9.2009 at Platform3. Vegaschleife listens to percussive sounds in the environment, records them, and plays them back in rhythmic patterns.

PLATFORM3
Räume für zeitgenössische Kunst
Kistlerhofstr. 70 (Haus 60 // 3. Stock)
81379 München

Flight data visualization

The picture above shows a fraction of a visualization of flight data (click the image to enlarge). It shows all flights that passed Vorarlberg within a year. Each square represents a flight. Rows show all flights that happened during one day according to the time of their flyover. In sum there are 365 rows, one row for each day in a year. The colour of the squares indicate the altitude.

The data used for this visualization was colleceted by Dominik Bartenstein using a SBS-1 Virtual Radar Box and custom build software called sbstools, that reads, cleans and stores the data in a MySQL database. The image was created using the Processing Java API (archive of the processing sketch)

Loss of Rhythm at C17

The Loss of Rhytm Installation was exhibited between January 15th and January 18th 2009 at the C17 gallery in Vienna. Pics: 1 2 ( by C17 - Thanks!. There is also a little movie.

Mobile Music Workshop 08 / Essence 08

Wave Lands II was exibited at the Mobile Music Workshop 2008 in Vienna and The Essence 08 (annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna).

Special thanks to Martin and Thomas at Protozone who did great help in building the speaker cases.

Wave Lands II

This sound installation is based on eight high-frequency speakers hanging from the ceiling and floating free 1cm above the floor. Each speaker plays back filtered sea wave sounds I recorded with different microphone placements on an area similar to that of the installation. Visitors are free to swing the speakers and therefore shape the sounds with varying reflexions from the floor and Doppler effect.

Wave Lands

The stones on the Plocica island in Croatia show patterns that are formed by the tide over a long period of time. Photographs of these patterns are reduced to two-dimensional graphical lines. Audio recordings taken at the same place are analyzed concerning their spectral composition. The data resulting from that analysis is used to animate the graphical lines in three dimensional space. Such that movements of the abstracted patterns is dependent on the sound of the sea.

Quick Time Movie

Loss of Rhythm

Sound Installation
3 speakters, 3 record players, 3 dubplates

Quick Time Movie