#MTFLabs@ZKM

Connect your brainwaves to the music of the Universe? At MTFLabs@ZKM, a short version of the three-day art and creative festival »Music Tech Fest«, visitors can experience and participate in a 24-hour live intervention and performance within the current »Open Codes« exhibition. 

Throughout the night this unique collaborative intervention will involve audiences to hook their brain into space data simulators and interact with sound distorted by the Moon. Completely new datasets and artworks will be generated live and added to the Coding exhibition.

The intervention will combine music with space data, neuroscience, DNA research, visual art and performance, using a unique toolkit of #MTFLabs data-driven tools and devices, compiled specially for ZKM:

• The German Music Tech Toolkit assembled by Music Tech Germany, including contributions from Fraunhofer IDMT, Bitwig, DadaMachines, Lofelt, Beatport, Soundbrenner, and Marble AR, with guest participation by Jürgen Moßgraber (Bitwig), Johannes Lohbihler (DaDa machines), and Tom Brückner (Marble AR)
• The MoonBounce dataset of sound bounced off the moon in real time by a long list of globally known artists and scientists from the Dwingeloo Telescope in the Netherlands, led by Artist-in-Residence Martine-Nicole Rojina (DE)
• The Synchronica simulator of planetary-human frequencies created with space data by a transdisciplinary team of 9 artists and scientists lead by artist Johanna Tano (SE), with Re Cvetana (BG), Mike von Paul (TX), Lubna Dajani (NY), Sonja Durajlija Zinic (HR), Panos Apostolakis (GR), and Muarts (PT -Francisco Marques-Teixeira, Horácio Tomé-Marques and Luis Anjos)
• The Time Flows dataset synthesizing 5000+ bell sounds based on physical modelling by artist Andrea Cerrato (IT)
• TUIs, tangible user interfaces created by VR artist, device and projection mapping programmer Stefano Piermatteo (IT)

#MTFlabs is a transdisciplinary platform which combines experienced artists, professionals and scientific researchers selected from the 7000+ global Music Tech Fest community

The labs will be led by #MTFLabs creative director and founder Michela Magas (UK/HR/SE) and #MTF director Andrew Dubber (UK/NZ/SE) in partnership with Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music (US/DE).