“Ballonnenveld” by Martijn Tellinga. An installation that displays a sounding and vibrating body of helium-filled balloons. The balloons function as resonance-chambers for a trimmed spectrum of sine-waves that are fed through strings, connecting the balloons with double-coned carspeaker-elements. Each balloon holds its own resonance-frequency that changes over time as a result of varying temperature in the space, amount of helium in the balloon (decreasing over time) and length of the string.
freq_out is a sound installation comprised of 12 individual sound works each utilizing a specific frequency range, made on site, and amplified to act as a single, generative sound-space. Encouraged by d!sturbances, Swedish artist and curator C M von Hausswolff assembled a collection of 13 artists, consisting of sound artists, architects, composers, producers, sculptors, mathematicians and visual artists. Each artist is assigned a frequency range with which to work. This process is carried out in situ, each using a workstation consisting of a mixing desk and PA system. All the resulting compositions are then amplified together in the space to create a sound installation or performance.
The main issue in “The Unknown” by Marc Behrens is the spectator’s experience. But despite the installation being silent when not touched it is not just about modulating a sound space, but rather about the limits of perception which are explored by the sensor’s function.
»Acoustic Survival Kit« consists of many acoustic atoms. Properly connected each acoustic module gives subtle signals and pulses to the environment. The surrounding light triggers the sound of the module. Changing light conditions affect the quality and level of the emitted frequencies. Signals of grouped modules interfere amongst themselves and with the sounds of the environment. By creating these links, bridges between private and public are established. By Miki Yui.
“Bee Trilogy”, Three LED sculptures with sound, based on observations of bees.
“Close-up”, People are invited to have their picture taken by a camera as they enter the BBC building. The portraits are added to an ever-increasing database whose contents are then displayed through translucent LED screens installed along the ceiling. Projects by Ron Haselden.
»Talking Popcorn« is a sound sculpture that evolved out of Nina Katchadourian’s interest in language, translation, and Morse Code. A microphone in the cabinet of the popcorn machine picks up sound of popping corn, and a computer hidden in the pedestal runs a custom written program that translates the popping sounds according to the patterns and dictates of Morse Code. A computer generated voice provides a simultaneous spoken translation.
Video -and soundexperiments in the context of performance, installation and cinema by billy roisz/gnu.
In the installation »Infinite Loop« (2004) a camera is rotated on its side and pointed into a television at close proximity. The camera feeds the image of pixels on the screen back into the TV’s audio and video inputs. The auto focus and auto exposure struggle to gain some coherence expected in an image, but cannot. The result is a fluctuating, oscillating signal.
In »Thaw« (2004) an empty swimming pool, a large mass of black, volcanic, basalt street bricks is interlaced with bricks of white ice. The cube will fall prey to entropy over the course of approximately 8 hours. The ice bricks fuse together and hold on to the bricks as long as possible, causing the structure to warp and sway pendulously before collapse. The brick cube rests on a steel table and hovers over a mirror, which floats above the floor. The mirror has microphones attached to it, which pick up the stochastic dripping of water and is amplified in the space, counting off the time between collapses. Both projects by Chris Musgrave.
Sound track generated from sounds of a defective hard disk. A sensor is placed on the hard disk that records sounds like vibrations. By Gregory Chatonsky. MP3.
»Backworlds/Forworlds«. Skateperformance and sculptures by Mark Gonzales and Johannes Wohnseifer.
»Powered By Honda/Strobedots« a soundinstallation and »Without Title« from series »Hondabeats« by Johannes Wohnseifer.
Selection of various sound-artists and projects that are currently featured at this year’s Wien Modern Festival in Vienna.
Blue Moon plays the tides, the tides mix the city noise into 3 tuning tubes generating harmony in response which then playback in real-time. By Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger.
“Photoshop Performance” by Oskar Dawicki,
“LEGO Concentration Camp Series” by Zbigniew Libera,
“Map Trap” by Wilhelm Sasnal and
“Faith in Means of Transport” by Zbigniew Rogalski. All: Raster.
»Marclay’s Bike«, a modified BMX from 2006 and »Delay« (Microphone, tripod, power amplifier, revox, cables) from 2005,
»Rushmore Mount« from 2005 and »Burning Mrs O’Leary’s Cow« (DVD video) from 2006 by Dominique Blais.
