Veranstaltung

Reconstructing Harald Bode

Festival Synthie Lovers

Vendredi 25 et samedi 26 avril 2025

© ZKM | Karlsruhe, Harald Bode Archiv

Harald Bode (1909-1987), ingénieur allemand et pionnier des instruments de musique électroniques, a exercé grâce à ses nombreuses inventions une influence majeure sur la musique électronique.

Ses vastes archives, contenant de nombreuses notes, plans de construction, schémas électriques et documentations de prototypes, font partie du ZKM depuis 2019. Sur la base de ces archives, le SYNTH-Werk de Munich, conjointement avec le ZKM | Karlsruhe et la HfM | Hochschule für Musik de Karlsruhe, a reconstitué le dernier instrument achevé de Bode, le fameux Barberpole Phaser, une unité d’effets qui n’a été construit que trois fois. Celui-ci est désormais à nouveau accessible au public et disponible pour les artistes et musicien·nes du monde entier.

Pour aborder l’important travail de Harald Bode sous différents angles et célébrer la réussite du Barberpole Phaser reconstitué, le ZKM et la HfM organisent un festival dédié aux synthétiseurs analogiques et aux convertisseurs audio électroniques.

Le festival s’adresse aux artistes et musicien·nes, aux spécialistes et scientifiques de l’histoire des arts électroniques, à toutes celles et ceux qui se passionnent pour les synthétiseurs analogiques, mais aussi aux personnes intéressées et curieuses.

L’événement débutera vendredi par une table ronde au ZKM Medientheater, accompagnée d’interventions et présentations, d’un point de vue scientifique et artistique, sur la vie et l’œuvre de Harald Bode, ses inventions, compositions et coopérations avec des musicien·nes.

Le soir, la manifestation se déplacera du ZKM à la HfM. Des concerts et des performances exploreront, en lien avec les propres compositions de Harald Bode et à l’aide du Barberpole Phaser reconstitué, les possibilités sonores nouvellement créées ou redécouvertes.

Le samedi, de nombreux ateliers permettront de travailler soi-même avec les instruments et les synthétiseurs analogiques, d’expérimenter, de bricoler et d’échanger avec des personnes partageant les mêmes idées.

Le soir, un grand concert avec Afrorack et Siri Thiermann au ZKM Kubus clôturera le festival.

Le festival présente des œuvres, des conférences et des concerts de :

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    Symposium on Friday, April 25, 2025 / Location: ZKM | Karlsruhe

    at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

    10:00 – 10:15 amWelcome and opening words
    Margit Rosen (ZKM), Matthias Wiegandt (HfM)
    10:15 – 10:30 amPersonal Address
    Peer Bode (Son of Harald Bode, Videoartist)
    10:30 – 11:10 am

    The Harald Bode Archive at ZKM
    Felix Mittelberger (ZKM)

    lecture

    11:10 – 11:30 am

    A Closed Circuit, Harald Bode
    Rebekkah Palov (former Archivist of Harald Bode, Sound-/Videoartist)

    performance

    11:30 – 01:00 pmLunchbreak
    01:00 – 01:30 pm

    On Reconstructing the Barberpole Phaser
    Felix Mittelberger (ZKM), Christoph Seibert (HfM)

    lecture

    01:30 – 02:00 pm

    Towards an experimental performance of Harald Bode’s Phase 6
    Juan Parra Cancino (Orpheus Institute)

    lecture performance

    02:00 – 02:30 pm

    Illusion in Non-linear Space
    Luís Antunes Pena (HfM)

    lecture performance

    02:30 – 03:00 pm

    Working on Harald Bode
    Gerhard Mayrhofer (Synth-Werk), Luís Antunes Pena (HfM), Juan Parra Cancino (Orpheus Institute)
    Moderation: Felix Mittelberger (ZKM)

    panel discussion

    03:00 – 03:20 pmBreak
    03:20 – 03:30 pm

    My Dialog with Harald Bode
    Suzanne Ciani (Artist)

    video

    03:30 – 04:00 pm

    Harald Bode – Instrument to Studio
    Florian Zwissler (HfM Köln)

    lecture performance

    04:00 – 04:30 pm

    Working with Harald Bode
    Senta Hirscheider (Artist), Svetlana Marasz (FHNW), Florian Zwissler (HfM)
    Moderation: Christoph Seibert (HfM)

    panel discussion

    05:00 – 07:00 pmBreak
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    Concerts on Friday, April 25, 2025 / Location: HfM | University of Music Karlsruhe

    at HfM | University of Music Karlsruhe

    07:00 – 07:30 pm

    Listening through the Archive: Harald Bode and Suzanne Ciani
    Senta Hirscheider (Artist)

    performance

    07:30 – 08:15 pm

    Parallel Realities
    Julian Brandhofer, Francisco Durán Del Castillo, Joanna Friedrich-Sroka, 
    Felix Horn, Andres Kaufmes, Negin Mozafari, Luís Antunes Pena

    concert

    08:15 – 08:30 pmBreak
    08:30 – 08:50 pm

    Harald Bode's Phase 6: An Experimental Interpretation
    Juan Parra Cancino (Orpheus Institute)

    concert

    08:50 – 09:10 pm

    LIJN 14 and new work (no title)
    Marieke van de Ven

    concert

    09:10 – 09:30 pm

    Live Performance
    Mapping Ambiguities: Florian Zwissler (HfM Köln), Luís Antunes Pena (HfM)

    concert

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    Workshops on Saturday, April 26, 2025 / Location: ZKM | Karlsruhe

    11:00 am – 2:00 pm»Theremin@ Synthie Lover Festival«
    with Max Kosorić
    37 €
    Meeting Point: 10:45 am at the Information desk 
    11:00 am – 3:30 pm»Making: Midi Madness« 
    with Michelle Vossen
    30 € / for one 2-person team
    Meeting Point: 10:45 am at the Information desk 
    11:00 am – 4:30 pm»Resonant Networks: Ideate, Code, Build, Perform« 
    with Chris Spatschek
    15 €
    Meeting Point: 10:45 am at the Information desk 
    2:00 pm – 5:15 pm»The BODE Barberpole Phaser and a legendary MOOG sound source...«
    with Gerhard Mayrhofer & Uwe Rottluff
    free of charge
    Meeting Point: 1:45 pm at the Information desk 
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    Jamsession on Saturday, April 26, 2025 / Location: ZKM | Karlsruhe

    1:00 – 4:00 pm

    Jamsession: Open Circuits – Share, Stack, Sync

    with Paul Erhardt & Dr. Lea Luka Sikau

    free of charge 

    Music Balcony
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    Concert on Saturday, April 26, 2025 / Location: ZKM | Karlsruhe

    5:00 – 6:00 pm

    Artist talk with Afrorack & Siri Thiermann

    English
    Free entry

    Media Lounge
    7:00 – 9:15 pm

    TURNS x Synthie Lovers Festival: Sonic Kinships – Patch, Plug, Mod

    Preact: Siri Thiermann
    Main Act: Afrorack aka Brian Bamanya

    10 € / 7 € (reduced)

    Kubus
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Who was Harald Bode?

Harald Bode was a physicist and engineer. After working at the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Oscillation Research at the Technical University of Berlin, he emigrated to the USA in 1954. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern synthesizer. His Modular Synthesizer and Sound Processor of 1961 and its concept formed the basis for the later Moog synthesizer. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Bode designed and built numerous instruments, electronic sound generators, and organs, including the Melochord, Europe's first postwar electric musical instrument, which was used by Karlheinz Stockhausen and others. In the 1960s, Bode developed ring modulators and his Frequency Shifter, followed by his famous Vocoder in the 1970s. The Barberpole Phaser in the early 1980s combined many concepts and ideas from previous instruments and aimed to revolutionize the musical landscape.

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What is a Barberpole Phaser?

The Barberpole Phaser is based on the psychoacoustic principles of the Shepard scale and the Shepard-Risset glissando discovered in the 1960s. A note or sound fed into the Barberpole Phaser appears to have an eternal glissando up or down as long as the note is played. Harald Bode decided to create a device that would produce this effect and add useful filters like fuzz. He called it the Barberpole Phaser because of its acoustic resemblance to the look of a barber pole outside a barbershop, which seems to go up and down indefinitely. Only three Barberpole Phasers have been built. The first was completed in 1981, the last in 1983, at the dawn of the PC era. However, their memory and processing speed were too limited for Bode's sound ideas. Nevertheless, he later attempted to emulate the principle on a Commodore personal computer, but this was never presented to the public.

© Harald Bode, ZKM | Karlsruhe, Nachlass Harald Bode
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Harald Bode Estate

More information on Harald Bode and his estate at ZKM | Archives

© Harald Bode, ZKM | Karlsruhe, Nachlass Harald Bode
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