Club Instabil
May 10 2013
Kunstmühle/ Studio blackhole-factory
Braunschweig

from left to right
Martin Slawig: a/v live processed objects
Ken Aldcroft: guitar
Elke Utermöhlen: voice + live processing
Peter M. Glantz: sampling-instruments

Peter M. Glantz

Elke Utermöhlen

Ken Aldcroft

Martin Slawig

Some wonderful photos of ‘Picknick am FeldRand’ at East Side Boom, Gerrard Art Space, Toronto taken by the great photographer Ed Hanley. Thanks for sharing!

Setting up at Lambton Tower:
Photo: Sigi Torinus

Photo: Sigi Torinus

Picknick am FeldRand at the Art Gallery of Windsor:

Photo: Sigi Torinus

The sound is generated by treating a piece of paper with a piezo mic and feeding this into a Max/MSP patch.

The system is looking for objects beeing placed on the turntable and then combine them autonomous. Video and audio live processing are both influenced by control data generated by video and audio analysis and positions of objects.

121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance will take place 5-12 December 2012

photograph Kyle Nolin

Live A/V performance Oceans Between Sound featuring Graziano Milano

Schedule and direct A/V links

Exploring interdisciplinary and intercultural networked creativity, this audiovisual performance will feature Ethernet Orchestra collaborating with visual artist Graziano Milano mixing visual collages in VisitorsStudio.

The inspiration for the performance Oceans between Sound considers the ebb and flow of network data as metaphor for the world oceans separating the members of the ensemble and their dispersed lives.

Ethernet Orchestra are streaming their networked improvisation via liminal sound net radio and live visual mixing by Graziano will be in VisitorsStudio. To experience the A/V shows online go to UpStage or open the urls above in separate browser windows.

Online as a live sound Internet broadcast and Graziano. Online audiences will open VisitorsStudio and the radio portal in separate browser windows to experience the full audiovisual performance.

There will be two shows for audiences in both hemispheres – view schedule times for more details.

The event is also showcasing earlier works by artists working in the field called “Walking backwards into the future” – a programme of 19 remounted cyberformances from the past five festivals (5-11 December). Follow this link to the schedule and time converters. more details

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Live Cinema performance

Picknick am FeldRand (picnic on the egde of the field) is an abstract roadmovie about a journey to imaginary places.

A collection of found objects and sounds from the edge of perception. Fragments of maps with shifted coordinates point the way to the place where the fulfillment of desires is suspected. Flickering images, CutUps of news from areas that surround this place. Minimum signals, amplified electronically.
They tell of the restlessness of people looking for orientation and safety, and the tradition of folklore, which is maintained at non-existent places.

The performance is a real-time composition in a laboratory in which the materials are dissected, scanned, probed and reconnected.
 At the boundaries between reality and fiction, shows a line of speculation about the origins and construction of identities.

One never gets there, they say. We do have a fragment of a map, which unfortunately does not tell us much, and have received some significant information. Based on that we are confident to find our way to this place.

We set out on our journey well equipped and well trained, convinced that we will succeed.

The field seems to be quite large …

Part of the performance is a computer network which sometime shows self deciding activities. The system, based on MAX/MSP is controlling the live processing of sound and video and the activities of the Scan Table.

The Scan Table is a computer controlled ‘turntable’ equipped with a Fire-I cam + a USB-microscope. A stepper motor is controlled by a max patch using an arduino board and a stepper driver to scan small objects. The images are live processed by a jitter patch and projected. All three patches for motor control, video and sound are exchanging control data and influencing each other creating an unstable situation.

performance:
Elke Utermöhlen: voice, melodica, field recordings, video, live processing
Martin Slawig: objects, field recordings, video, live processing,
programming: Martin Slawig
produced by blackhole-factory

premiere: March 16 2012 Kunstmühle Braunschweig

Picknick am FeldRand is funded by Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stiftung Braunschweiger Kulturbesitz

We are very proud to announce the release of
Ethernet Orchestra – a radio feature by Mirko Heinemann

This is a 2 hours radio piece. It presents live recordings of five concerts done by Ethernet Orchestra during the past 18 months. The band members give background informations and personal reports about the idea and the experience playing in networked improvisations.

With this collection it is possible for the first time to get an overview over the creative exchange and to listen to the wide range of beautiful and exciting music of this extraordinary musical project.

blackhole-factory is happy about the possibility to produce this piece in collaboration with Mirko Heinemann, a great journalist, who did reports on our work already in other situations.

Thanks to DEGEM radio for hosting the show in their series Sounds only, streaming it 2 times a day in Dezember 2011 and Januar 2012

Ethernet Orchestra – a radio feature by Mirko Heinemann

Ethernet Orchestra is an Internet based networked music ensemble founded by musician and writer Roger Mills, exploring cross-cultural improvisatory collaboration through telematic audio platforms. The ensembles live performances occur in both physical and virtual spaces, and often include collaborations with networked live cinema artists mixing visual montages to the networked stream.  The core members of the ensemble  play an array of cross-cultural instruments including Turkish oud & bendir,  Mongolian horse fiddle and throat singing, guitar, trumpet, sax, voice and electronic processing. Recent live performances include Kunstmuehle Gallery, Braunschweig, Germany, O-Town Sound, New York and Bon Marche Studio, University of Technology, Sydney.

http://ethernetorchestra.netpraxis.net

http://www.eartrumpet.org

Members are
Roger Mills: processed trumpet (Sydney, Australia)
Chris Vine: git, key (Londrina, Brazil)
Bukhchuluun Ganburged: Mongolian Horse fiddle and throat singing (Sydney, Australia)
Yavuz Uydu: Oud, Bendir (Sydney, Australia)
Shaun Premnath: tabla (Sydney, Australia)
Richard Lainhart: Buchla Synth (New York, USA)
Peyman Sayyadi: Persian Tanbour (Montreal, Canada)
Elke Utermöhlen: Voice, live processing (Braunschweig, Germany)
Martin Slawig: Objects, live processing (Braunschweig, Germany)
Herve Perez: Saxophone (Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Mirko Heinemann is a german journalist based in Berlin. He works for different radio stations such as Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio Kultur, WDR and writes for several newspapers and magazines. He already did reports on activities of the German artist’s group blackhole-factoy in Ramallah/Palestine. For him the musical projects of the Ethernet Orchestra are a door to new aspects of intercultural communication.http://www.mirko-heinemann.de

schedule december 2011 + january 2012:
monday: 10am + 10pm
tuesday: 8am + 8pm
wednesday: 6am + 6pm
thursday: 4am + 4pm
friday: 2am + 2pm
saturday: 0am and 0pm
sunday: 6am + 6pm
All times are CET Central European Time ==  UTC + 1 hour
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