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
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)
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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.
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Read moreThe Handydandy * consists of five Media-artists from Austria (Bauch Bernhard, Gross Luc, Kirisits Nicolaj, Savicic Gordan, Waldner Florian) making music on their mobile telephones instead of using usual Music-instruments. The mobile Telephones are used only as interfaces and they are connected, via Bluetooth, to a computer network, a virtual opposite to the “human network” music-band.
* The name of the Band consists of the words Handy; this is the German term for mobile telephone, and Dandy.
The poet Charles Baudelaire wrote that an aspiring dandy must have “no profession other than elegance. . . no other status but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons. . . he must live and sleep before a mirror.”
We also got some coverage in the Wall Street Journal (May 29, 2007):
“Some musicians have already taken cellphone music to an extreme. An Austrian rock band called the Handydandy named itself after the German term for mobile phone, handy. The band, which performs at electronic arts festivals in Europe and elsewhere, has done away with ordinary instruments altogether. Each member of the quintet straps a Sony Ericsson handset around his neck like a guitar and taps away on the buttons, making all the facial and bodily contortions of an Eric Clapton or Carlos Santana while producing very different results.
The group’s cellphones, sometimes attached to Styrofoam cutouts shaped like guitars, are linked wirelessly to laptops a few steps away. Pressing keys triggers the nearby computers to play a cacophony of distorted sounds and digital beats. The group refers to its cellphone-powered blur of electronic noise as “Bluetooth Rock,” a reference to the popular wireless technology.”
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