Institute for Algorhythmics will take part at Interferenze 2010 in Bisaccia (23.7-25.7) with a talk/presentation and with a performance. The performance is planned to be a session using coils and HF-detectors to sonify unhearable electromagnetic waves of our electronic devices (mobile phone, computer, camera, pocket translator), but also of our invisible infoscape (wifi, UMTS, GSM, bluetooth). The talk with the title “Transsonic Infoscapes” will explain the theoretical concepts behind the artistic practice. More here.
The algorhythmics of the different sorting algorithms are sonified in a better way now. The lower the seperator sound the deeper the recursion is (in case of merge sort or quick sort). Watch it in Fullscreen mode and in HD (only on vimeo.com).. !
AlgorhythmicSorting is an open source program and learning tool for people, who want to learn and analyze the diversity of sorting algorithms by hearing the different rhythmic behaviour of different sorting algorithms like bubble sort, merge sort, quick sort or heap sort and others. It shall be used by students, sound artists, researchers and hobbyists to learn the rhythmic basics of algorithms. More documentation is to follow.
Michael Chinen will perform a short set on 25th (Tue) of May at General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin. The next day he will also present his work at NK. I copy from their website:
Michael Takezo Chinen interests involve writing software in c and c++ to find similarities between computer processes and music, using themes such as hierarchy, synchronicity, and reference. Currently he is writing a suite of tools for the mac called the “fucking” series, which involves analyzing and sonifying the raw memory and processor state of everyday programs such as a web browser or text editor.
The Presentation at “Thinking Network Politics: Methods, Epistemology, Process” (25th of March) in Cambridge, UK was a succes and now I am preparing a presentation for Aarhus, Danemark (INTERWEAVING TECHNOLOGIES – THE AESTHETICS OF DIGITAL URBAN LIVING). The site www.sonicarcheology.net is still in progress, but looks better and better. We will annouce as soon it will be made public (it is already, but not promoted).
The text is a pre-version in progress. A final version of this paper is planned to be published as: »AlgoRHYTHMS Everywhere – a heuristic approach to everyday technologies«, in:Hoogstad, Jan Hein / Stougaard, Birgitte (Ed.): PLURALIZING RHYTHM: MUSIC, ARTS, POLITICS, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2011 (forthcoming)
We lately made our first contribution to radio called “algoRHYTHMIC noise of our everyday gadgets“, which consists of a study with short snippets of audio examples about audificated processes of our everyday gadgets like our cell phones, cameras, smart phones and laptops.
Auscultations no. 1 to 16 are made by using a electromagnetic coil, no. 17 to 19 are made by audification processes of assembly code on software side (formal materiality) and auscultations no. 20 to 23 are produced with a HF-detector.
Shintaro Miyazaki (Founder of Institute for Algorhythmics: Concepts & Direction) will talk on the 9th of March in Newcastle (UK) at “Creative Digital Media Research Practice: Production Through Exhibition” in New Castle. Title: Sonic Media Archeology and DIY-Practice. More here.
Due to the lack of attention we announce a finnisage of our little exhibition called “ubiquitous oscillations² or about rhythmic structures of media”. Date: Sunday 7th of Feb. from 1900 (7pm) until 2200.
There will be a performace: “AlgoRHYTHMIC Noise of our Everyday Gadgets” by Michael Chinen & Shintaro Miyazaki. It will be about the diverse sonic archeologies of our digital gadgets (either from the software side (Michael) or from the hardware side (Shintaro). Dont miss!
Place is here. Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin. Take U2, get off at “Senefelder Platz” north exit. Walk on the left side past the building site and see old house with white fluorescent lamp, which says “GENERAL PUBLIC”.
Tomorrow is the opening of the exhibition “ubiquitous oscillations² or about rhythmic structures of media” where Institute for Algorhythmics shows a new work called “2nd Order Diatoms”. Yesterday we finished the black box. Have a look. More impressions will follow after the opening tomorrow. Click more for pictures. More Infos about the project here. (more…)
We are preparing full power now the installation “2nd Order Diatoms” during CTM as a partner. Digging now with help of Michael Chinen and Akitoshi Honda into Random Walk, Modulo, C++, Servo Motors, Stochastics, Pitch Detection, Beat Detection etc. Team work is very efficient! Here is the press text. More news will follow. And apropos the project “Institute for Algorhythmics” got noticed.. At least a bit. Here (spanish) and Here (french).
Besides Akitoshi Honda our hardware guru we have now Michael Takezo Chinen, software and computer music specialist on board for the Institute for Algorhythmics. Michael orginally from Hawaii with japanese roots, studied Composition&Computer Science at University of Washington in Seattle, Electro-Acoustic Music in Dartmouth College and was Research Student at Tokyo Denki University. Lately he moved to Berlin with the Fulbright Research Grant for Wavefield Synthesis at the Technische University Berlin. A starting point for our temporal research and art project… (more…)
I post here a link to an audio recording I made during “Alan N. Shapiro & Alexis Clancy on Tour: New Computer Science” a talk about visionary computer science and about what kind of mathematics and attitude is needed for being part of a new shift in computing. (more…)
Click more for a rough documentation film about the exhibition at “born digital? – art, life, games and technology” – an exhibition of interactive media art in the “Cees Braakman Zaal”, Toonkamer (Rotsoord 3), Utrecht. 8th November 2009. Culturele Zondagen, Utrecht (Niemandsland, Berlin meets Utrecht) (more…)
The exhibition of 8th of November (culturele zondage, utrecht) organized by born digital in cooperation with Institute for Algorhythmics and AMAZE finished quite good. The audience was very diverse and interested. About 100 people came for just one day. Thanks to born digital! See further down (more) for some pictures of the work we (Akitoshi Honda + Shintaro Miyazaki) showed called “2nd Order Diatoms” and also the workshop called “Get the basics of your gadgets” I did before in Utrecht. Short films snipplets will follow. (more…)
“born digital? – art, life, games and technology”
- an exhibition of interactive media art in the “Cees Braakman Zaal”, Toonkamer (Rotsoord 3), Utrecht (more…)
[Akitoshi Honda and me] + Wolfgang Spahn are participating at born digital 2009 at small festival with the motto berlin meet utrecht. Akitoshi and me are building now a laser installation with the working title “formed by ubiquitous waves or born digital?”. More infos will follow.
Preparing another presentation in Berlin, now for a workshop about “operative diagrammatic” at Humboldt University Berlin. Title (again only german..) : “Algorhythmik vs. Diagrammatik – wenn [Speicher]-Fläche in Zeit übergeht.”, 15th Oct. 2009
Preparing my participation at dis-conneting-media a promising symposium organized by some former co-students and Georg Christoph Tholen (I/f/m, Basel). The title of my presentation will be (in german): AlgoRHYTMEN überall. Entwurf einer Medienarchäologie eines ubiquitären Alltagsmediums.
The three days arduino workshop “Get the basics of your gadgets” is finished today around 19:00. Thanks to all participiants and also to Akitoshi, who was the co-leader of the workshop. Here some pictures. For more informations please read older posts. (more…)
I had my first screening. The film is about algoRHYTHMs! What else. Stephane helped me and he showed one of his amazing works. More Infos about the event are here.
The workshop will be from 17th – 19th Sept. 2009 and is called: get the basics of your gadgets! It will be in german language. Further down you can read the german intro text. (more…)
Friday night (28.8 2009) we presented our new pieces we (endliche automaten – laptoporchester berlin) created during our instant composing tour through mid and southeast europe at Hartware MedienkunstVerein in Dortmund. I also visited the (more…)
I wrote a short essay for berliner gazette, which connects knowledge about water a subject of interest for the magazine with knowledge of sound, which is in my opinion in the contemporary media culture far more important than water.
Reading “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution” by Steven Levy. Very inspiring! Especially the story of Steve Dompier’s first acoustic peripheral for the Altair 8800. Almost finished!
Participation at breakthrough, 27th of June, organized by _____micro_research [Berlin] over. Here some pictures. Cool Prof. Otto Roessler participited also!
Published an interview with Kim Cascone (.microsound), who I met last year at “contemptronics – 08 Hamburger Klangwerktage – festival für zeitgenössische musik”. Read here.
Institute of Algorhythmics is taking part from 25. – 28. May 2009 at a microresidency at xxxxx micro research berlin. Titel of the project: Epistemology of electromagnetic waves” (in collaboration with Martin Howse.)
