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Sonic Experiments 2024

Electronic Music and Audiovisual Performances

Thu, December 05, 2024 7:30 pm CET

© Beatriz Campayo, Photo: Lucía Pitters
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Young musicians and sound artists present their world premieres - developed in the studios of ZKM | Hertzlabs!

The international artist-in-residence program »Sonic Experiments« is dedicated to current developments within the various forms of experimental electronic music. You can look forward to works by Lam Lai and Marieke van de Ven in the category Analog Synthesizer, Beatriz Vaca »Narcoleptica«, Ben Fawkes and M Lore Wingren in the category Experimental Spatial Pop and Maximilian Pellizzari in the category AI & Sensor Technology.

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    Analog Synthesizer - Lam Lai & Marieke van de Ven

    With her work »Spotless White«, Lam Lai invites us to reflect on the cycles of nature. Her aim is to create a composition that she can manipulate live using the synthesizer and combine with the sonic structure of the space. By combining her synthesizer with numerous other effects, she can easily modify sounds during a live performance. Ultimately, the composition is about celebrating the authenticity of sounds created with an analog synthesizer. 

    Marieke van de Ven finds inspiration in the sounds of the natural and urban environments that surround us. Using field recordings, abstract sounds, interviews and text, she explores the relationship between sound and narrative. Her goal is to create an enchanted sonic labyrinth in which sound, space and perspective constantly shift and intertwine. To achieve this, she uses sounds created with a Serge synthesizer, magnetic tape, and test and measurement equipment consisting of oscillators, filters, and modulators. Her goal is to compose a sound architecture in which time, sound, and space are constantly changing and intertwining. 

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    Experimental Spatial Pop - Beatriz Vaca »Narcoleptica«, Ben Fawkes & M Lore Wingren

    Beatriz Vaca »Narcoleptica« creates sounds that transcend the traditional boundaries of musicianship, moving between experimental electronic music and popular music aesthetics. Her work aims to merge live electronics and emotion to create an introspective sonic journey into unknown realms. To this end, she uses the human voice as an intersection between the intangible pulse of sound and tangible physicality. 

    M Lore Wingren developed an audiovisual performance that is reminiscent of a game and builds on previous experiments with audiovisual software. M Lore Wingren wants to create interfaces that allow the artist to interact with music in an expressive and playful way. 

    »Prepared Guitar Orchestra« is a research and experimental project in which Ben Fawkes aims to challenge stereotypical perceptions of experimental music and sound art. Inspired by John Cage's pieces for prepared piano and Keith Rowe's pieces for prepared guitar, Fawkes aims to create an orchestra of guitars that he can play entirely on his own. To achieve this, he combines the guitars with various devices attached to the strings to alter the sound, and also uses effect pedals. Each of the guitars used is connected to its own amplifier for fine sound control. The resulting sounds are then spatialized through the sound dome of the cube.

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    KI & Sensorik - Maximilian Pellizzari

    In his performance »Scrolling Years«, Maximilian Pellizzari presents a visual time travel through online sourced digital images animated by body movements and paired with baroque and electronic music. An AI trained on his movements will anticipate his actions and take control of the simultaneous movement of the visual matter. The work explores historical memory via popular online images, juxtaposing today’s image proliferation with the ornamentation of baroque music. 

    In collaboration with: Zeno Lösch (Sound Design), Daniel Morandini (Programming) and Daniele Corbari Verzeletti (Composer).

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The series »Sonic Experiments« is dedicated to current developments within the various varieties of experimental electronic music. The program presents upcoming musicians and sound artists who either have a special sense for new, forward-looking impulses, or pursue particularly innovative compositional approaches. The aim of the series is to invite the audience to expect the unexpected. 

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This year, »Culture Moves Europe« awarded five grant receivers with scholarships. Funded by the EU's »Creative Europe«-program, »Culture Moves Europe« is implemented by the Goethe-Institute.

Ben Fawke's scholarship is fully funded by ZKM | Karlsruhe with no additional funding from the European Union and is not part of »Culture Moves Europe«.

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