between the frames

flo_thumbsince my machine can’t keep up with the upgrade race, it wouldn’t run the latest videchat software. The old version started to confuse keyframes, to show two moments at once and produce errors, marvellous gifts of the obsolete.

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like you up there

A flock of starlings in the blue light is like a heavy storm, overwhelmingly beautiful and breathtaking – if you don’t have anything to loose, like property or harvest.
One possibility to scare invading flocks away from vineyards is to implement speaker systems that play sounds of barking dogs or hawks. The acoustic land art project “RAPTORreloaded” undertakes the experiment to incorporate sound art into these system

Like you up there is the attempt to form sonic contraflocks of grotesque animals. Relaxed, alarmed, in panic. Den ganzen Beitrag lesen »

slingshots

photographs of the electron bream of a manipulated black and white TV moved by a soundsignal.

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about life and death of neutron stars and TV-sets

sound installation for crt televisions and speakers

A cooperation with the Media arts laboratory/ Franz Xaver
Loops of pulsar-signals, as well as the live stream of the radio telescope RT03 are assigned to a multiple speaker scenario. Fed to manipulated tube monitors the signals deflect the electron beam that formerly formed the TV picture. The sounds of the “dead” stars thus generate pictures and slowly destroy the cathode tubes and burn the screens – until they end with a last flash.

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bread for words – Brot gegen Sätze

“Brot gegen Sätze” is trading sentences for slices of bread meaning something like “bread for words”adverting to the saying “für ein Butterbrot arbeiten” which would mean “working for peanuts”. Whereas “gegensätze” means polarity, difference, contradiction.
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foundsomemagic

analog, b/w fotographs, middleformat, archival inkjet print on cotton paper

Stones? Textures of granite? Or veins; fossils of miniscule sizes magnified to the size of the visible; or they are alive, and only the stillness of the photograph makes them motionless? Maybe they are the traces, captured in time, of the movement of heavenly bodies, travelling in multitudes and thus reminding one of live organisms? “Dune” and associations with many other fantasy films flood in instantly,

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16.2. speakerstands

I developed a speakerstand for spatial sound environments. It consists of a steel tank, 6 m telescope rods and moveable modules to attach speakers. A prototype was produced in June 2006. Den ganzen Beitrag lesen »