Florian Waldner

Radio Drama by Velo

florian — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:10:17 +0000

A series of three short radiodramas (in German), each about a special holiday (World Savings Day, Valentine’s Day, World Day of Socially Insured Artists). Originally released in December 2010 on Festtagsaufschnitt by Landjäger magazine.

Written and produced by Velo (Sven Matt, Robert Rüf , Florian Waldner).
Voices: Stefan Pohl, Michaela Bilgeri, Robert Rüf (on Weltspartag)
Voice Recording: Heike Kaltenbrunner

To listen press

Weltspartag - Kurzhörspiel von Velo by 13bitstring
Samenkoller - Kurzhörspiel von Velo by 13bitstring

Welttag der Künstlersozialversicherten - Kurzhörspiel von Velo by 13bitstring

Upcoming RjDj Scene “Eden”

florian — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:34:43 +0000

I am currently working on an new RjDj scene called “Eden”, inspired by Stansliaw Lem’s great science fiction novel Eden. What I am trying to create is a hybrid between a game soundtrack and reactive music. You can navigate a starship around and discover some extra musical content. But be careful, gravity pulls you towards an alien world called Eden!

Auditory Illusions

florian — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:42:23 +0000

While reading Bregman’s book Auditory Scene Analysis I made a couple of Pure data patches to demonstrate auditory illusions mentioned in the book. All patches are done in Pd vanilla and include short descriptions and a reference to the publication the illusion was reported in. Until now there are patches for:

stream segregation in a cycle of 6 tones (Bregman/Rudnicky)
masking / mental synthesis (Dannenbring)
loss of rhythm in an ABA sequence (Van Noorden)
high and low tones on left and right ear mixed up (Deutsch)

Download the patches (ZIP) here.

Sensor Bird for “The Birds according to Oskar Sala”

florian — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:41:57 +0000

“The Birds according to Oskar Sala” is a radioplay by Ammer & Console. The play was staged live at the German Museum in Munich 16th and 18th July 2010. I equiped the plastic crow in the picture above with a G-force sensor using a wireless eowave sensor box. The bird screamed and fluttered depending on how it was moved and was used on stage by the actor playing Hitchcock’s part.

Oskar Sala is a german composer and pioneer of electronic music who created the soundtrack for Hitchcock’s The Birds using his custom built instrument the Trautonium.

Does It Sound Like I Was Here?

florian — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:56:15 +0000

Does It Sound Like I Was Here? reacts to the sounds surrounding the listener and incorporates them in the installation. With mobile devices, headphones and a microphone, the installation accompanies the listeners in their everyday lives and creates an extended, acoustic reality. The software is at the heart of this and determines how the composition reacts to conditions and changes in the listeners’ sonic environment. Pics on flickr. Sound on Soundcloud. Video on youtube.

German text:

Does It Sound Like I Was Here? ist eine private Klanginstallation die den Hörer auf seinem Alltag begleiten kann. Musik wird immer mehr auf portablen Engeräten konsumiert. Die neueren Generationen dieser Endgeräte verfügen über Möglichkeiten die weit über das einfache Abspielen von Musik hinausgehen. Diese Arbeit bedient sich dieser neuen Generation an portablen Musikabspielgeräten um ein musikalisches Erlebnis zu gestalten das eng mit dem Hörer verbunden ist und auf diesen reagieren kann.

Does It Sound Like I Was Here? besteht aus einer Umhängetasche, einem mobilen Musikabspielgerät, diversen Kabeln und einem Kopfhörer an dem ein kleines Ansteckmikrofon befestigt ist. Das Mikrofonsignal wird von der Software in Echtzeit bearbeitet und wieder abgespielt. Die Software deﬁniert wie das Mikrofonsignal bearbeitet wird und bestimmt Aufbau und Form dessen was über den Kophförer abgespielt wird. Die Software ist ein Stück Musik welches erst zum Zeitpunkt des Hörens realisiert wird. Die grobe Struktur der Musik ist vorgegeben und wird zur Laufzeit mit den übers Mikrofon aufgezeichneten Geräuschen umgesetzt. Das Stück hört sich dementsprechend bei jedem mal Hören anders an. Die Arbeit ist für einen Fussweg von knapp 15 Minuten in urbanem Umfeld konzipiert. Der Hörer soll diesen Weg mit aufgesetztem Kopfhörer abgehen. Mithilfe des Mikrofons wird das jeweilige Umfeld des Hörers Teil der Arbeit. Für den Hörer ensteht so eine erweiterte Realität auf akustischer Ebene.

Wave Lands II

florian — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:35:37 +0000

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 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.

Video:

Processing and the RjDj API

florian — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:29:40 +0000

The picture above is a section of a visualization that displays the number of uploaded recordings made with RjDj scenes available on http://rjdj.me/music/. The picture was made using Processing and the RjDj API . The length of the bar indicates the number of uploaded recordings. The scene on the bottom is the oldest, the one on top the most recently added.

A very helpful and well documented tutorial to start using Processing with JSON is on http://blog.blprnt.com.

Here is the link to the source for the RjDj API visualization: http://13bit.at/RjDj_API_Recordings.zip To run this sketch you will need this JSON Processing library.

aware - RjDj Scene

florian — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:03:41 +0000

aware is a piece of music that reacts to the listeners sonic environment for the RjDj iPhone app. aware creates a lush and wide musical landscape. The microphone is used to produce swirling electronic sounds. A generative synth plays notes whenever there is an acoustic onset in your environment. Swipe through the pages of the scene to experience different modes! Page one is the generative listening mode, page two fuzzy layers of sound based on the mic input, and page three is made to sing along the harmonies and record. You can get the scene for free on RjDj.

A video of the scene in use is here:

Unowis - RjDj scene

florian — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:52:32 +0000

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.

Vegaschleife at Raumsonde Alpenblick (Munich)

florian — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:41:30 +0000

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
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Kistlerhofstr. 70 (Haus 60 // 3. Stock)
81379 München