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ISEA 2002 --- 27.10 - 31.10.2002


LAB[au]
laboratory for architecture and urbanism

Manuel Abendroth
Jéröme Decock
Alexandre Plennevaux

http://www.lab-au.com

sPACE,navigable music:

http://www.lab-au.com/space


spa[z]e music:

[ERZATZ]
http://www.erzatz.org

ISEA

http://www.isea.jp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LAB[au] invited with the online multi-user project for ISEA 2002 the 11th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Nagoya, Japan

...> about ISEA

...> about sPACE,navigable music
...> about spa[z]e music
...> about [ERZATZ]
...> about lab|au|

 
ISEA 2002


Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and development of the electronic arts. ISEA's membership and collaborators consist of a wide range of individuals and institutions involved in the creative, theoretical and technological aspects of the electronic arts.

ISEA2002, the 11th International Symposium on Electronic Art will be held in Nagoya, Japan from October 27 to 31 with the theme, 'Orai'.

'Orai' is a Japanese word, meaning comings and goings, communication, and contact, as well as streets and traffic. About 200 years ago, a book titled Nagoya [Orai] was compiled and published in Nagoya and it was used as a kind of textbook for teaching and writing. Through discussions around art and its interdisciplinary studies, ISEA2002 NAGOYA [Orai] hopes to provide an opportunity to create a new text in this electronically networked society.

 
sPACE,navigable music


sPACE, navigable music:

sPACE, Navigable Music’ is an on-line project investigating the impact of IC technologies and particularly, 3D Real Time modeling languages (such as VRML) in the construct of space. According to the objectives of LAB[au] the project constitutes as much a space for theoretical research as a space of experimentation on the forms of spatial, visual and sonic interactions in networked environments. The project thus explores the setting of hyper media environments and electronic space combining architecture, music and cinema through users interactions – navigation within the digital matrix in order to build up connectivity.

In sPACE, navigable music, the space is generated in real time according to the position and movements of the user in this e.space ( > mix color, > mix image, > mix sound). Operating on the spatial (x,y,z), temporal (t-movements) and sonic (frequency, pitch) parameters, each interaction by the user, navigation, transforms the visual and sonic space. In addition, the recording of movements allows each user to produce a traveling according to cinematic techniques, camera movements and image sequencing - montage. The established relation between the spatial, visual and sonic formalization processes and the editable interactivity of users lead to an experience combining architecture, music and cinematic techniques through movement patterns. The ‘Navigable Music’ thus constitutes a space, in which the user experiments cyber space by dropping sounds into space, mixing music throughout space and navigation, record its movements to produce an animation, a kinetic music clip, a sharable sonic space.

for the online version: http://www.lab-au.com/space

 
spa[z]e music

spa[z]e music:

P R O J E C T - T E A M:
lab[au]:_ M.Abendroth, J.Decock, A.Plennevaux
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[ERZATZ]:_ sinusjog

The [SPAZE], music is based on collaboration between lab[au] and different electronic musicians, influenced by electro / d n' b / IDM and brain music, who composes specific sonic-spaces, navigable music. Based on the space, navigable music project the collaborations focus on the exploration of musical patterns in and through e.space and relates them to image sequencing in order to create an immersive sonic and visual environment. The composing of music through navigation in e.space and the spatialization of music through the quadraphonic sound system thus constitutes a performative sonic space, which the musicians creates each time live through their navigation. It thus relates, synchronies, space to music and cinematic techniques dealing not only with new ways how to compose, share, perform and diffuse music through electronic space but also questions the construct of music and space itself _ 'space_music'.

The exploration of 'space-music' has its origins in the experimental work of electronic music since the fifties, where musicians like Varèse, Stockhausen, Xenakis… not only has explored audio visualization and spatialization systems in order to relate the logics of space to the one of imaging and music but also to link it to computation technologies, synthesized and programmed music. The Spa[z]e music compositions thus relates the logics of inFORMation processes, computation > communication (networking) and editing (recording) to the one of space and music building up an immersive space of frenetic sounds; a navigation through the digital matrix … enjoy
[ERZATZ]

[ ERZATZ ]:

_ As first musician to collaborate with lab[au] for the sPACE, navigable music 'online project' [ ERZATZ ] has developped a large 'set' of spa[z]e compositions and is also the main responsible for what is to be heard in the multi-user space which is presented as an installation during the electronic.sPACE event........

As a composer of electronic music and webdesigner, [erzatz] has a very organic connection with the technologies of today. Inspite of this technological aspect, his music is feeded with human emotions and feelings. On the one hand you have the sweet - ironic tales, inspired by his own love story (stories ?), and on the other hand you have strong dance compositions ,inspired by the epigoni of punk rock and grunge . These tracks are marked by "absolute" rythms and by an amazing know how of breakbeats (as we know them of electro funk , drum ‘n bass and braindance). [erzatz] is eclectic but open to the public, and nobody can resist his smiling face. Very soon [erzatz] has his own afficionados. They visit his site ( www.erzatz.org ), his Hotline server, and they listen to his radioprogram "zoundblender" (each thursday evening on Fm Bssl 106.5).

http://www.erzatz.org

lab|au|

LAB[au]:

_…Founded in 1995 LAB[au], laboratory for architecture and urbanism, links theoretical research LAB[a+u] to concrete works of conception and productions, LA.BAU. The different sectors of LAB[au] present the broad range of activities where the 0.1lab label stands for a work on the World Wide Web as a vector for the creation of a new working environment as well as the base for a new matrix of social interaction and collective space; LAB[au]+ for the creation of a collaborative agency examining these transformations within various disciplines.

According to this method LAB[au] elaborates a 'metadesign' investigating the implications of new communication and computation technologies within spatio-temporal structures and their multiple forms of representation, such as information architecture, architecture, urbanism…

The transposition of inFORMation processes, transmission and computation, in textual, graphical bi-dimensional, three-dimensional and biomorphic (auto-generative; n-dimensional) forms explores new constructs proper to the electronic medium and outlines the spatial and semantic mutation provoked by technologies on the perception and conception of our environment. ‘Metadesign’ thus can be understood as a technology determinism that constitutes the main vector/thought in the concern of networked, information-based societies.

Official website: http://www.lab-au.com
Complete biography: http://www.lab-au.com/bio2
Theory: http://www.lab-au.com/files/index.shtml
© LAB[au] 2002