A frame without picture, but with sound. Controlled by a radar sensor.
Motorblock
New enclosure for a powerful Revox motor with speed control.
SPIN
Spinning ping pong balls around 2 axes. Intricate patterns turn into concentric circles. High speed, high precision stepper motors with custom drivers controlled by FPGAs solving 5th-order equations in realtime, with a focus on event timing. Also filmed with cameras to be presented on a series of monitors.
Klangballon
Tracking a balloon that carries trumpet players as well as sensors, transmitting information to a server that drives a set of MIDI sound modules, all wireless.
Inverted Cone
Modular multi-channel motor controller for Julien Maire’s installation “Inverted Cone”
maßnahmenpaket
Installation at singuhr by Boris Baltschun and Serge Baghdassarians with “Z.K.M.” as well as new works like “duell”, “squaring (sauna)” and “spirit level”
Tutorial Diversions
Various Max patches for sound file manipulation.
Hip-Hop
Two linked turn-tables, one playing vinyl cut to force the needle to hop, the other equipped with a pen mirroring these movements, drawing a seismogram.
Sondol
An attempt to replicate Alvin Lucier’s Sondols used in his piece Vesper
sololala
Concert series curated by Gregor Hotz with 5 evenings juxtaposing the “Empress of Sounds” against “The Man with the Horn”. Or music by Alvin Lucier interpreted by women vs. saxophone soli played by men. The Lucier pieces were mostly realized with digital technology. In particular “Music for Solo Performer” was interpreted using a multi-channel alpha wave sensor and a periodicity detector implemented in MaxMSP.