Minus 60° – Surround Sound Installation With Synchronized Fluorescent Tubes from Karl Kliem on Vimeo.
January 22, 2012 by abulafia
minus 60 degrees
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April 30, 2011 by abulafia
frequency painting
FREQUENCY PAINTING: 12 TONES from Gary Joynes on Vimeo.
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November 15, 2010 by abulafia
111 motors and boxes – zimoun
Zimoun : 111 prepared dc-motors, cardboard boxes 60x60x60cm, 2010 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE
The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». Using simple, physical systems to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns, Zimouns‘s work transforms and activates the space.
Compilation Video (selected works):
vimeo.com/7235817 or zimoun.ch/video.htmlWebsite:
zimoun.chExhibition view: Tiefparterre Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. Curated by Richard Tisserand. Assistants: Vanessa Gageos, Florian Bürki, Nino Bollag and Reto Müller. Sponsoring by SCA Packaging Switzerland. Kindly supported by KulturStadtBern and Swisslos / Amt für Kultur Kanton Bern.
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August 5, 2010 by abulafia
audio palimpsest
Audio Palimpsest (2010) is an interactive sound-based installation that explores applications of indeterminacy and randomness in an interactive platform. The piece is based on a hacked cassette recorder, where the device functionalities are reconfigured to work in a different context. Audio Palimpsest is an auditory art system that allows multi-point interaction by synthesizing data inputs collectively and emphasizing the thought of open-endedness in its execution — opening up content generation to sources beyond the traditional expectations.
Audio Palimpsest from Anis Haron on Vimeo.
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August 3, 2010 by abulafia
Nest installation at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts
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July 18, 2010 by abulafia
speculum rotarius
Exhibition text:
A sound installation for two warped rotating mirrors, two loudspeakers, light filters, an interactive psychical system via the software “EVP maker” and computer.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) was discovered by Swedish painter Friedrich Jürgenson in 1959 as he was recording birdsong and through the playback heard what he believed to be the voices of his deceased father and wife communicating with him via the medium of tape. This phenomenon was further researched and popularised by the Latvian psychologist Konstantin Raudive (1909-1974) who apparently made more than 60,000 recordings of these voices who he believed to be disembodied spirits.
The installation uses modern methods of EVP researchers, specifically the “speech synthesis method”, such as that developed by German EVP researcher and software designer Stefan Bion in the program EVPmaker. In this method, the spiritual entity is given auditive “aids” of raw audio material, small segments of speech (circa 10-45ms) which are played back using a pseudo-random number generator. By influencing this random principle, the spiritual entity can subsequently form words with which to communicate with living beings.
The physical set-up of the installation can be viewed as an experiment in the aesthetics of disappearance. Where the phenomenology of the visual perceptions can clearly be contrasted with the phenomenology of the auditive, the rotating mirror is taken as an attempt to readdress auditive and visual reflections and the notion of disappearance.
Auditive material has been sourced from samples of Michael Jackson. The installation is proposed to function on two levels; for believers of EVP, it is intended that a psychic interaction can take place between the EVP researcher and the spirit of Michael Jackson via the EVPmaker software. Those with hearing tuned to identify EVP may make out words, phrases or messages from the now deceased Michael Jackson and may thus be able to communicate with his disembodied spirit. A guestbook has been left in the room for visitors to share the messages they believed to have heard.
For sceptics of the paranormal, the installation can function as an experiment of psychological projection as outlined in Joe Banks’ concept of “Rorschach Audio” or auditory illusions akin to those of Diana Deutsch, as the visitor can attempt or resist the formation of sounds into words with meaning. The nature of human perception as “unconscious inductive inferences” (Helmholtz) can be emphasised by this process, in which the ears and brain draw on experience to hypothesise our conception of reality.
The installation “speculum rotarius (electronic ghosts)” is to be viewed as a homage to Athanasius Kircher and the spirituality of his inventions.
“speculum rotarius (electronic ghosts)” Annie Goh from annie goh on Vimeo.
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July 1, 2010 by abulafia
atlante di roma
Art is Open Source (artisopensource.net) and Fake Press (fakepress.net) will be presenting an enormous interactive infoaesthetic environment at the Festa dell’Architettura of Rome, from the 9th to 12th of June 2010.
The interactive environment is named “Atlante di Roma” (Atlas of Rome) and it is an instance of a wider project which will be launched online on the website atlantedellevisioni.net . The project is curated by Paolo Valente, who practically made everything possible. The Atlas has another component which is called ABC Roma by Giuseppe Stampone.
Atlante di Roma / Atlas of Rome from gimbo on Vimeo.
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June 28, 2010 by abulafia
radius music
Radius Music combines ideas of cartography and graphic scores as a means to produce sound. The device itself is an autonomous revolving machine that reads a distance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it takes this radial distance and outputs it as a relative sonic frequency and a corresponding visual score.
Radius Music Installed [High Quality] from hendersontwelve on Vimeo.
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June 27, 2010 by abulafia
sun boxes – now with inexplicable chickens
Sun Boxes from Nick Seaver on Vimeo.
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June 19, 2010 by abulafia
TONSPUR for a public space
A programme of sound works and live-performances by
international artists in the Vienna MuseumsQuartier and at the “Übergangsnutzung Schlossareal Berlin”. These artists’ multi-channelled compositions go well beyond the standard stereophonic experience, creating captivating acoustic architectures and sound spaces.
TONSPUR for a public space from frank paul on Vimeo.
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