Announcement
Electroacoustic composition “residuals” at re_composed festival, October 31
At this year’s edition of the re_composed series, part of paraflows XIII, festival for digital art and cultures, i will present a new piece of acousmatic music, titled residuals.
The piece is re-composed solely of compression artifacts, originating from my piece Points of View, as performed at the same re_composed festival five years earlier. The new piece has the same 24 minute duration as the prior performance, and also the same 4-channel layout.
October 31 thru November 3, 2018
weisses haus, Hegelgasse 14, 1010 Wien, Austria
Call for participation: Workshop “sound-material-time”, November 8+9, Anton Bruckner University Linz
We will host the workshop “sound-material-time”, taking place November 8+9, 2018, at the Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz, Austria.
We are specifically targeting practitioners and theorists in music / sound art explicitly working with long time spans / obsolescence phenomena / explicit degradation.
In principle also other forms of time-based art are welcome if they are topical. Our focus is on digital media, but deviations are possible.
Since the workshop is within our artistic research project “rotting sounds”, its intentions should well resonate with your topic.
We would like to stress the fact that this is not a scientific workshop, but rather a gathering where we would like to discuss (personal) artistic practices and their contexts.
Central concepts are the following:
- Interaction of material (physical, analog, digital) and time
- What is “digital”? Where do physical and logical data interface?
- Identifying and working with degradation processes/artifacts in the (digital) medium
- What is the aesthetic impact of such processes?
- Aspects of presentation, preservation, distribution of artworks depending on degradation
Each of the participants should bring along material things of their work practice which could be instruments, data carriers, objects of interests and passion. You should also give a short introduction about this practice.
Our intention is to keep the number of participants low (select 5-8 or so) and to zoom in on each practice individually.
All three core members of the research project will be present (Thomas Grill, Till Bovermann and Almut Schilling).
Within the group, we will develop questions and experiments on deterioration specifically for each participant.
We will also ask the participants prior to the workshop about specific topics they would like to have addressed.
The work schedule is 10am-1pm and 2pm to 5pm on both days, tentatively.
There will be a possibility for public presentation (concert format) in the evening of November 9.
The deadline for applications is Sunday, October 21, 2018.
Participation is free of charge.
Please direct your applications to info@rottingsounds.org, including
- a CV
- a few relevant examples of your work (artistic or theoretical)
- a short motivation text about what you suggest to bring in and what you expect
Please distribute the call!
Residency at Eden Project
Together with Katharina Hauke, Till will be on a journey to Invisible Worlds at Eden Project in Cornwall, UK. The residency resides under the theme … and then we see if we will be friends and is meant to be an invitation to all curious organisms and life-forms in and around the Eden Project to create sounds and improvised experimental music together (with us).
Small networked music making systems will be set up within the various sites of the Eden Project that feature differing degrees of self-sufficiency and interaction possibilities for both visitors and inhabitants.
We plan to adapt and extend our semi-autonomous platform fielding to both sense and provoke actions of the various actors, inviting them to explore emergent collaborative phenomena. Of course, the (obvious) connection to rotting sounds will be investigated within the residency and related material be collected over at friendly.organisms.de.
Hope to see you there in September!
Talk at ars electronica symposium, September 9
Under the title “Letting loose, embracing the loss”, I will talk about implications of audio deterioration at the Ars Electronica symposium “… under control of music, music under control of …; composing (in) digital worlds”, part of the Sonic Saturday at Anton-Bruckner Private University, Linz.
Most of today’s media output, also music, is produced and stored in the digital domain. Although digital data are adorned by the myth of lossless transmission and migration, everyday experience does prove the existence of degradation and, ultimately, data loss in various forms. This pertains to the physical nature of storage media and playback devices as well as to media formats and software in the context of their technological infrastructure.
Usually, this loss of control over the musical material is counteracted in the personal or societal domain using various kinds of archival strategies.
In the running project of artistic research “rotting sounds”, however, we rely on the hypothesis that by gaining pertinent knowledge and developing adequate means to work with digital degradation in a constructive fashion, its inevitability can be turned from being a source of irritation into a potential for aesthetic choice.
September 8, 2018, 4pm-7pm
Anton Bruckner Private University
Studiobühne
Hagenstraße 57, 4040 Linz, Austria
Presenting a manifesto at the “politics of the machine” conference, Copenhagen, May 16
I will present some observations and implications on our topic of the degradation of digital audio. Consequentially, i will try to formulate a number of bold claims summing up to the form of a manifesto.
Politics of the Machine conference
Aalborg University Copenhagen
A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark
May 16 2018, “sonic machines” session at 3:45pm
Kick-off public session @ spiel|mach|t|raum, MDW, May 11, 3pm
From May 11 thru 13, the project members will gather for a formal kick-off meeting in order to flesh out the goals and strategies for the months to come.
One important part of this meeting will be a public discourse session. There will be a number of short presentations where team members explain their respective personal perspectives on the project, and, more prominently, an open discussion, where we invite the interested audience to contribute their ideas and wishes for the project to our kick-off event.
The open discourse will be guided by performer Charlotta Ruth. The event will be held in English.
Friday, May 11 2018, 15-18h
spiel|mach|t|raum, room S0225
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW)
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Presentation and discussion @ Applied Practice, AIL, May 2
Right after the official start with May 1, Thomas Grill and Almut Schilling will present concepts and strategies of the rotting sounds project as part of the Applied Practice lecture series, both from their respective angles of sound art and digital preservation.
Following will be an open discussion session led by media expert Michael Iber where the audience is cordially invited to share their thoughts on the topic with us. The talk will be in held in German language.
May 2 2018, 17h
Angewandte Innovation Laboratory (AIL)
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Rotting Sounds @ Knowing in Performing symposium, April 4
Our upcoming research project Rotting Sounds will be presented at the Knowing in Performing symposium for artistic research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
4 April 2018, 9.30 am – 6.00 pm
MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Fanny Hensel Hall
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna
Artistic research as it has emerged and evolved over the last three decades is related to an increasing interest in epistemological questions as well as an interrogation of how artistic practices constitutively support and instigate processes of knowledge creation. Art is thus being looked at both as an object and a medium of research, becoming part of a general discourse on knowledge regimes and research models.
The symposium will investigate this dynamic, ever-renewing field of interrelations with a special focus on the performing arts. Highlighting the issue of various implementation models in curricula and study programmes in higher arts education, it will critically analyse international institutional policies and facilitate an open debate on how to integrate current practices and discourses into future teaching and research structures.