November 2019
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Communicating Vessel: Portal of Emotion
Christian Groothuizen, University of East London The object is 3D printed from data sourced from a series of field recordings made by the artist. The recordings explore sound’s complex relationship with architecture and the built environment. The work describes both the exploration through making of real objects and a nascent enquiry into ‘Sound Objects’ as…
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F 18W T8 G13 865
Dawid Liftiner, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Audiovisual Performance // 12 Minutes 10 x Fluorescent tube, Arduino, relays F 18W T8 G13 865 is a highly concentrated audio-visual performance with a self-built instrument. Through a digital interface via software, Arduino and relays, fluorescent tubes are turned on and off controlled by the performer. Only the…
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Stars and Stripes
Jim Hobbs, University of Greenwich Thirteen years ago, prior to moving to the UK from the States, I received a “Freedom Pack” from my wife’s brother This package contained all sorts of patriotic bumper stickers, badges, fridge magnets, and of course, an American flag. Stars & Stripes is a deconstruction/reconstruction of that flag – mathematically…
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Accumulator # 4
Jeremy Welsh & Michael Francis Duch, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim This work follows a series with the same title (Accumulator 1,2, 3) etc as well as realizations of works by Pauline Oliveiros, Michael Pisaro, Hanne Darboven, John Cage and others. All of these combined live music for double bass with film/video. Works…
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Stages
Paul Klooren, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre It is a short abstract narrative that was made using a mixture of filmed footage and hand-drawn elements that were then animated. All the sounds (except for the song in the middle) originate from a guitar. Biography Paul Klooren born in 1994 in Tallinn, Estonia. Currently studying…
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Environment Built for Absence (an unofficial/artificial sequel to J.G. Ballard’s “High Rise”)
Tivon Rice, University of Washington Beginning in late 2017, the demolition of the Netherland’s Central Bureau of Statistics office created an extreme type of slow cinema for railway passengers travelling between The Hague and Amsterdam. Over the following year, as the building was methodically deconstructed from the top down, I visited the site each month…
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Trotters and Boogie Stomp Pink
Stuart Pound, Independent Artist Trotters We trot towards a riddle. Boogie Stomp Pink This boogie dance performed by William & Maeva was downloaded from the internet. Vertical sections taken from each frame are arranged into 24 panels to show pattern and movement across every second of it. First shown at the Ottawa International Animation Festival…
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Broken Slide – Into the Mouth of the Butterfly
Gerhard Nierhaus, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz The visual components of this multimedia project consist of movies/photos which are taken with various high magnification macro and microscopic devices from one single broken microscopic slide containing some parts of an insect’s body. It was not the intention to produce realistic imagery, but to photographically explore this single…
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Uriel
Jing Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Uriel is a collaboration between visual artist Harvey Goldman and composer Jing Wang. Biography Jing Wang, a composer and virtuoso erhu artist, was born in China. Ms. Wang has participated in numerous musical communities, as a composer and a performer of diverse styles of music. Her compositions have been…
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Verbalizing Sculptural Sound Phenomena in Electronic Music and Sound Arts – Towards a Share Perceptual Space (SPS)
Gerriet Krishna Sharma / Angela McArthur, IEM Graz / Queen Mary London This contribution is concerned with questions whether the aesthetics of spatialized electronic music of today take into account the perception of the audience at all and how to find terms that could be helpful for composition and analysis of spatialized sound. We are…