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Madrettor
festival, 02.- 05. October 2002
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Manuel Abendroth project id file: http://www.lab-au.com/files/doc/spaze.htm project URL:
[ ERZATZ ]
for the festival:
off corso
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LAB[au] invited with: the sPACE, navigable music online project for - the workspa[z]€ : 2.10 - 4.10.2002 at ' off Corso ' - the spa[z]e music performance : Ludenskerk 05.10.2002 Madrettor festival, 02.- 05. October 2002 Rotterdam _ Netherlands for information: http://www.madrettor.org  read about: ...>
the festival
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MADRETTOR, a festival for new media based in Rotterdam, will take place from the 1st until the 5th of October 2002. The aim of MADRETTOR is to offer an inside in the world of well-known international new media artists and designers. To achieve this, lectures, workshops and discussion sessions will be organised during the festival. The more informal programme will contain performances, installations, an exhibition and music. Aimed to provide our visitors and participants with a broad overview on the newest digital features used in a variety of artistic disciplines. Important goal for the festival is to initiate new projects involving a mixture of artists and designers from different disciplines to establish a progressive environment within MADRETTOR projects. The festival will
be open to everyone interested in new media. Presentations and workshops
will be held in English. Headquarters will be Off_Corso
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The work_spa[z]e
is conceived as an open platform during the ten days, where the invited
musicians with lab[au] will compose spa[z]e-music in ‘real time’,
presenting the spa[z]e + sPACE files in order to give each visitor the
possibility to have a look ‘behind the screen’ – the
setting up of programming space and music. __________[20.00]
http://www.adapter.nl
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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.
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P R O J E C T -
T E A M: 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 The music performance is conceived in three steps: after a short presentation of the space, navigable music project, (theoretic + conceptual) introduction on a large screen the public is invited to experience the project even on some computers or in the multi-user space mode through an intranet/internet. The simultaneous projection of the multi-user space and the computers dispatched among the public thus already creates a sonic space giving not only a very particular experience of e.space but also of networked interaction. In this way each station will not only give a particular point of view but also be a diffusion point for sound thus creating a real sound environment driven by the public. The third part of
the performance consists in the live set of the one or more musicians
presenting the compositions and real time mixes in the sPACE environment.
The music set is conceived as an open-end performance, where at the
end the musicians mixes his music while the public can experience the
'spaze' compositions via headphones.
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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). LAB[au]: 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
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LAB[au] 2002
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