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LTP – HUMAN [AMBIENT MIX]
‘Human’ is what we are. Somewhere in between the ground and the sky, humanity has its place on earth. What does it mean to be human? This 74 minutes composition tries to find an answer in the auditory realm. The artist is connecting sounds from all around the world which normally would not be heard ...
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Andi Finger DJ Set
II Das war der Tag der weißen Chrysanthemen, – mir bangte fast vor seiner schweren Pracht … Und dann, dann kamst du mir die Seele nehmen tief in der Nacht. Mir war so bang, und du kamst lieb und leise, – ich hatte grad im Traum an dich gedacht. Du kamst, und leis wie eine ...
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Mee_Drum
Here is the MeeDrum, a synthesizer built around the MeeBlip Micro hackable synth. The design was born out of the idea to contrast nowadays consumer electronics economy with the growing diy/low technology idea. The symbolism is coarse but also multifaceted: the form of Africa and the technique of building traditional drums raise questions about the ...
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Pending
Valentin Heßler, 2012
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Glitches Series 1-7
To distract you folks from bigger things that are happening and to celebrate this wonderful world, we are happy to introduce the Glitches AV series. This way we hope to distribute dusty audio-visual material which was recorded for test purpose. You can download these audio-visual clips on Vimeo for free and use them however you ...
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AXIS MUNDI FESTIVAL // CALL FOR ENTRIES
6 TeilnehmerInnen können sich innerhalb von 5 Tagen (05.04.2013 – 10.04.2013) mit dem unten beschriebenen Arbeitstitel frei auseinandersetzen. Dabei sollen die vorliegenden Räumlichkeiten eng in die Auseinandersetzung mit einbezogen werden, wobei der Fokus auf Rauminstallationen bzw. Performances liegt. Das Erdgeschoss einer Villa in Halle Saale steht uns dazu zur Verfügung. Ausreichend Essen/Trinken werden während der ...
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Leaving the Planet @ NODE13 [Video + Making Off]
The NODE13 festival in Frankfurt was an extremely dense week packed with high-tech stuff, very intelligent and motivated people and a lot of fun. I have to thank the VVVV community and the organizers for making this happen. The début of my ‘leaving the planet’ AV performance went fine. Of course I messed up the ...
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AV Performance in a Cinema
On Wednesday 19th of Februaray we had an AV performance in the Zebra Kino in Konstanz, a community cinema that is pretty much into alternative movies and lifestyle. The nice thing with a cinema is that you have a good sound system and a good projection. For the audience the performance can be something relaxing ...
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2013 Release Preview: Schwarzwald
The first preview on an artist, who is going to release on Symbiotic Cube in 2013. Most of his tracks are built around samples from latin-american cumbia music, south-east-asian rock n roll, western pop music and self-made instruments. His collaboration with the Berlin based band Percy Schmeisser has just begun this year and is ...
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Metphors Exhibition Opening
We managed to get this 18 minutes video shoot and 30 minutes audio recording from my performance at the Metaphors exhibition opening at nomadenetappe in Linz. It was very nice that Enrique Tomás (ultranoise.es) gave me the posibility to play the fresh system there for the first time. Thanks to all of the people involved. ...
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vvvv Workshop at HS Augsburg
This is what the students of HS Augsburg produced during the two-day vvvv workshop which I held in the mid of November. It was very refreshing to meet the nice media art community there and talk with the head of the time based media department, Robert Rose (http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~rose/). Thanks to all of the participants for ...
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Leaving the Planet @ NODE13
As you can think, it is a honor to me to play an audio-visual live performance at NODE13. The performance will be on Friday, 15th of February. The festival will take place from the 11th to 17th of February, featuring a dense week of workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances. So I am in the happy ...
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Deconstructed Reality Documentation
On Monday I produced an experimental movie featuring thoughts about wearable/fashionable technology, 3d printing, audio visual production and the deconstruction of reality. It was produced with a head-mounted web-cam. I was wearing it half the day to test how it feels and what it means to record everything you see and hear. The computer was ...
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HDD Hack: Rotary Input Controler and AV Setup
Things are getting hot lately. Here is a little update: I have completed “DeathStar3″, my custom software for audio-visual production and performance. It is my solution to a major problem: Long ways between sound production, visual production and performance. I managed to build a vvvv/max4live/ableton setup which features: 2 video players, 2 patch players, lots ...
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Printable Generative Ring with vvvv
I was visiting a friend of mine in Nürnberg for a few days in Febrauary 2012. At the Kunstakademie I had the opportunity to work with 3D printing and laser-cutting technology for some hours. To get comfortable with it, I made a series of generative ring designs. Everything worked out surprisingly good and could have ...
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Interactive Installation “Hunt” @ FMX 2012
From April to May I was hired as a freelancer by the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg to work on the interactive installation “Hunt”, concipated and produced by the Interactive Media students Lea Schönfelder and Jonas Kirchner. The installation was about an small comic like creature which flees from the user until the user shows patients ...
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About Fashionable Technologies and Wearable Electronics
This week I am going to attend to a lecture about Fashionable Technologies which will be held by Dr. Sabine Seymour, Chief Creative Officer of Vienna and New York based company Moondial and Professor at Parsons The New School for Design. She is also holding different lectures at universities around the globe such as here ...
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Why taped circuits [and how to louse up an installation with them]
Some time ago I stumbled across the page of High-Low Tech, a research group at the MIT Media Lab. Their research is focused on integrating “high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures” into beautiful little artworks. Being thirty percent artist, thirty percent scientist and a hundred percent tinkerer, they work on transforming our physical ...
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Leaving the Planet DJ Set Collection [2011/2012 IDM/DUBSTEP]
Be carefull it’s a bit overpowered! In 2013 i’ll create more substantial stuff and less shizzle (hopefully). Leaving the Planet @ Contrast – MIAUUW! 11Sept2012 Tracklist Unknown klankschap_very close impact lightning (sample) Noscow – Sever Ties Tribal Dances – Incredibly Aebeloe – Blipblip (Dual Shaman Remix) Daedelus – The Open Hand Avows Tokimonsta – Eight ...
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Tekcor DJ Set Collection + Live Set [2009/10 Electronica]
Tekcor – Simons Geburtstags Set 02Feb2010 In the first place it was nothing more then any other internet nickname, simply with the intention to have a cool name standing in the fraglist of a multiplayer game, like they were so popular in the beginning of the year 2000. When I startet to deal with sound ...
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MIDI_ism: Arduino-powered DIY Midi Controllers
WE! LOVE! MIDI! BECAUSE! IT IS FUN! Here are my two favorite MIDI controllers. The MIDI implementation takes place on the Arduino board and is outputted via a MIDI jack. The MIDI_MONSTER is composed of 2 potentiometers, 3 switches, one LDR with a LED pole and one theremin sensor. The MIDI_QUELLE has one infrared distance ...
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25. & 26.08. WöRKScHOP: BUILD YOUR OWN MIDI-CONTROLLER WITH ARDUINO
Where & When: *25. & 26.08.2012 *14:00 *Der Kanal @ Weisestraße 57, Neukölln, Berlin The idea: A two-day Workshop (25.08 + 26.08) for Live-Performers, Audio -and Visual Artists, Producers, Designers etc. You will learn how to sketch, build and programm a MIDI controller that meets your individual workflow and allows you to individualize your artistic ...
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TANZ DER MASCHINEN
This post recalls the creative and intellectual outcome of a whole period that was highly inspired by a parallel reading of Michel Houellebecqs “Atomised” and Nietzsches work. Both are advocators of radical human enhancement, Nietzsche with his “Übermensch” and Houellebecq with his utopia of a genetically optimized mankind. Their thoughts provoked a deep intellectual clash, ...
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GLIMPSE ON LEAVING THE PLANET AV LIVE PERFORMANCE
Back to the days when Leaving the Planet was founded, the idea was to express the feeling which takes place every time you leave behind the boundaries of modern society and set yourself on a journey to unknown places of your mind. Places where you find the true potential of your nature as a complex ...
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CIRCUIT BENT SOUNDSCAPES
Circuit bending seems to be pretty popular at the moment and when I saw one of these funny little toys on a flee-market, I decided to try it myself. After quite a while of short-circuiting and audio-terrorising, both the audio and the visual appearance changed completely. I added two plugs for the power supply, 5 ...
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SYMBIOTICCUBE.COM LAUNCHES
We are proud to anounce the launch of symbioticcube.com. We are filling up the side with fresh, unseen content within this week.