lab[au]
laboratory
for architecture and urbanism
Manuel Abendroth
Jérôme Decock
Pieter Heremans
Alexandre Plennevaux
http://www.lab-au.com
RICX
The
Center for New media culture
Riga _Latvia
http://rixc.lv/03
go.to lab.files
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... 15.05.
- 18.05.2003 perfo.+presentation // lab|au|
invited:
... to present its works about sonic space
... ++ the spa[z]e 360° music performance
...
. in the context of:
... The 6th International new media festival
about:
... Art+Communication at:
... The RIXC, The Center for New media
culture
... Riga _Latvia
...
...> about RICX festival
... ...> festival program
... ...> about sPACE,
navigable music
... ...> about spa[z]e
360°
... ...> about spa[z]e
music
... ...> about lab[au]
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RICX
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The 6th
International ART+COMMUNICATION festival will comprise a series of events
from
May 15-19, 2003 conceptually located at
the intersection of information networks and post-modern architectonics;
while physically located in Latvia in Riga, as well as in Karosta, Liepaja
and at the VIRAC Radiotelecope in Irbene.
The Media Architecture international conference will take place in Riga,
from May 16-17. Discussions will include: how lessons from the social
dynamic of 'virtual 'networks, can be applied to the creation of open,
public physical spaces; designs for process-based architecture, and
hybrid spaces; and how mapping/positioning and wireless networking impact
on notions of space time and social organization.
Taking place
in a central, but derelict section of Old Riga the theme of 'transformation
of place' through networking (both physical and virtual) will be manifest
in the conferences various facilities through installations, include
evening programmes of media synesthesia (visible sound/audible light),
as well as by the official initiation of an ambitious engineering project
for the creation of Media Space - a new
headquarters for RIXC.
Closing programme: acoustic space lab
Finally, for the closing section of the festival, participants will
be brought to the Irbene Ratio Telescope, a former Soviet military satellite
dish (d=32m) where participants from the 2001 Acoustic Space Lab symposium
will present their interpretations of data they gathered from scanning
the planets, communication satellites and surrounding environment with
this powerful telescope.
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festival
program |
15.05.2003
_ 19:00
FESTIVAL OPENING + Opening of festival exposition
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16.05.2003 _ 10:00 - 18:00
CONFERENCE: DAY 1 [MEDIA ARCHITECTURE]
How lessons from the social dynamic of 'virtual
'networks, can be applied to the creation of open,public physical spaces;
discussion on designs for process-based architecture, and hybrid spaces.
Panel 1 [ urban geographies and
networked media / process-based architecture ]
Frans Vogelaar / KHM / Cologne, DE , invOFFICE / Amsterdam, NL
Tuomas Toivonen / AULA / Helsinki, FI
Francesca Ferguson / Urban Drift / Berlin, DE
Lev Manovich / San Diego, USA
Herve Trioreau / Paris, FR
Carl Biorsmark, Kristine Briede / K@2 / Liepaja, LV
Alex Adriaansens / V2 / Amsterdam
Panel 2 [ hybrid space / open source -media-
architecture ]
Eric Kluitenberg / de Balie / Amsterdam, NL
Tania Gorucheva / Media Art Lab / Moscow, RU
Tim Boykett, Andreas Mayrhof / Times Up / Linz, AT
Luke Jerram, Bristol / UK
Tamas Szakal / Leipzig, DE
Michael Mastrototaro, Sabine Maier, Christoph Theiler / MACHFELD / Vienna,
AT
Performance:
*
NAVIGABLE SOUND / lab[au] / Brussel, BE
* PING SONIC / Voldemars Johansons / Riga, LV
* SEMEMA-INDUSTRIAL.NET / Girts Korps / Riga, LV
* CELLULAE.NET / Jaanis Garancs / DE-LV
* Screening of the films: HOMING, GIFT un CULTURAL QUARTIER by Mike
Stubbs / UK,
..KYOTO - RAW MATERIAL ON SUBLIME BEAUTY,
Wolf Kahlen / DE.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
17.05.2003
_ 11:00 -17:00
CONFERENCE: DAY 2
[MEDIA ARCHITECTURE]
Exploring
potential of mobile media for social geography and locative art. How
mapping - positioning and wireless networking impact on notions of space
time and social organization.
Panel 3 [ cell-space:
mapping-positioning and wireless networks ]
Marc Tuters / GPSter / Montreal, CA
Ewen Chardronnet / Ellipse / Paris, FR
Marko Peljhan / Projekt Atol / Ljubljana, SI - tbc.)
Wayne Piekarski / UniSA, AU
Jaanis Garanchs / Cologne, DE, Riga, LV - Cellulae.net
Adam Hyde / r a d i o q u a l i a / London, UK-NZ
Panel 4 [ locative media and psychogeography
]
Konrad Becker / Public
Netbase / Vienna, AT
Brian Holmes / Paris, FR-US
Aske Hopman, Esther Polak, Tom Demeyer, Marleen Sticker / de Waag /
Amsterdam, NL
Leonore Bonaccini, Xavier Fourt / Bureau d’etudes / Paris, FR
Ted Pikul / 0100101110101101.ORG / Bologne, IT - VOPOS - Life Sharing
Performance:
* LSP#2, Edvin van der Heide, Amsterdam/NL, laserperformance.
*
SENSOR DUO performance by Cecile Babiole, Paris/FR and Atau Tanaka,
JP-FR
a performance with two artists onstage: one producing sound and the
other manipulating image, both articulated by movements of the arms
and body. Sensor systems are the instruments turning gesture into digital
information. They interpret a unified compositional concept - one in
light and the other in sound.
*
COMMA DATA SPACE, Adam Hyde, NZ,UK.
*
SPECTROSPHERE by Clausthome (music) and MR/F5 (video), LV
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18.05.2003
_ 9:00 -17:00
FESTIVAL CLOSING PROGRAMME, Irbene Radiotelescope
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net
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sPACE_navigable
music
http://www.lab-au.com/space
LAB[au],
laboratory for architecture and urbanism:
Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Alexanfre Plennevaux,
Pieter Heremans
sPACE //:
Space _ (XYZ) + PACE _ (rhythm – beat)
Navigation //: Users movement in e.space according to specific modalities
of perception + cognition
project modalities :
sPACE,
navigable music has started in 2001 as an online work in process with
the aim to link research and development according to electronic space
combining theory with experimental architecture. Since the start of
the project different forms of production and development has lead to
a diversified structure between technological, artistic and cultural
research such as:
- an online
database including various 3d real-time experiments and theoretic writings
http://www.lab-au.com/space
- an online platform ESDN [electronic space development network] for
programming and research related to artistic concerns [ open source
+ shared human resources ]
http://www.lab-au.com/esdn
- a collaborative network with experimental electronic musicians exploring
the field of music and architecture and to the development of specific
perfomative settings _ spa[z]e music and specific mixed reality installations
such as: urban installation, interactive multi-user installations
- a collaborative network with architects, video makers, artists, graphic
designers in the field of MetaDeSign, exploring new sign_forms in hypermedia
http://www.lab-au.com/esdn
- thematic ‘ workspaze’s ’ based on temporal workshop
like collaboration organized with educational, artistic… institutions.
http://www.lab-au.com/space/workspaze
In this
manner the project now covers a broad range of different spatial settings
running from net spaces ( on-line community_launch end 2003 - collaborative
spaces, ESDN - to online performances) to the one of e.spaces ( spa[z]e
modules) as to performative spaces ( music and contemporary dance) and
cybrid spaces ( mixed reality installations)
project
abstract:
sPACE, Navigable Music’ investigates 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 hypermedia 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 cyberspace 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,
where the multi-user space even extend the project to collective interactions.
Based on
theses principals the ongoing development of an online community based
on recordable and shareable spa[z]e compositions exploring e.space,
its social and functional patterns as well its influence in the general
field of cultural sing_forms, will successively lead to an online label
_ ‘ spa[z]e music ‘ _ thus exploring new possibilities in
the production, experience and diffusion of electronic music in and
through space and thus the general construct of architecture and music.
Furthermore the development of new interfaces for music performances
such as voice recognition systems allowing through voice instructions
to generate spatial objects ( architecture ) to control navigation and
to interact with 3dsound objects as well as different motion capture
devices and midi hardware controllers extend the field of real-time
interaction to the setting of mixed reality devices including more and
more the ‘body’ inside the construction and experience in
e.space. The linkage of networked interactions with the one of new hardware
interfaces thus creates a broad range of possibilities in the setting
of spa[z]e music performances from ‘online concerts’ , ‘online
dance’ … to mixed realities music concerts and installations
all related to the general aim of a spa[z]e music label exploring new
economic, social and artistic concerns enhanced by IC technologies.
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spa[z]e
360° |
about
spa]z]e 360°
... spa[z]e 360° propose an installation based on the immersion
in electronic space on the one hand through a quadraphonic-to polyphonic
sound system and on the other hand 3,4,6,8 projection screens disposed
to form a panoramic (360°) space or the one of a complete sphere
projection all rendered in real time. In this manner the public gets
immersed in the 3D visual and sonic environment of spa[z]e music. In
the centre of the disposal the musician's place, edit and mix live images
and sound in and through the navigation in the e.space. The public follows
the navigation of the musicians and share the rendered music as the
sensation of movement and speed in the non gravity e.space of the sPACE,navigable
music project and thus explore the field of immersion and real-time
interactivity in the setting of mixed reality installations.
The 'spa[z]e
360° project is based on a software, developed by lab[au] in order
to make through network rendering a 360° projection in real time
possible. Synchronization within navigation and mainly the one of sound
is critical in networked devices as each computer process its own 3D
computations. The project thus is based not only on networked 3d rendering
but also on complex time programming. As any number of computer can
be used, the 360° projection can be made out of 3,4,6,8 or even
32 screens/computers. Slave computers can also provide sound extending
the project to hexa, octa, dodecaphonic sound.
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spa[z]e
music |
about
spa[z]e music:
|| spa[z]e music || ... 3d real-time polyphonic music based on various
collaborations between lab[au] and different contemporary 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 collaboration focus on the exploration of
musical patterns in and through e.space and relate them to image sequencing
and spatial constructs in order to create an immersive sonic and visual
environment. The composing of music through navigation in e.space and
spatialization through the quadraphonic sound system thus constitute
a performative sonic space, which the musicians create each time live
through their navigation. It thus relates, synchronizes, space to music
and cinematic techniques dealing not only with new ways to compose,
share, perform and diffuse music through electronic space but also questions
the construct of music and space itself _ 'space_music'.
Spa[z]e music performance are also including a series of experimental
interface devices exploring different settings in the interaction with
3d real-time music such as voice recognition allowing through voice
instructions to generate spatial objects ( architecture) to control
navigation and to interact with 3dsound objects as well as different
capture devices and hardware controllers. The aim is to explore IC-technologies
in the setting of new forms to relate space to music.
The exploration
of 'space-music' has its origins in the experimental electronic music
of the fifties, where musicians like Varèse, Stockhausen, Xenakis…
have explored audio visualization and spatialization systems in order
not only to relate the logics of space to the ones of music and imaging
but also to link it to computation technologies, synthesized and programmed
music. The Spa[z]e music compositions thus relate the logics of inFORMation
processes, computation, communication (networking) and editing (recording)
to the one of space and music building up an immersive space; a navigation
through the digital matrix.
…> to read further
about: Sonic space, the shape of sound
in RIGA
: [ ERZATZ ] + LAB[au]
[ erzatz ] [ _b ]
As a composer
of electronic music and web designer, [erzatz] has a very organic connection
with the technologies of today. In spite of this technological aspect,
his music is fed with human emotions and feelings. On the one hand you
have the sweet - ironic tales, inspired by his own life, and on the
other hand you have strong dance compositions ,inspired by the epigone
of punk rock and grunge These tracks are marked by “absolute“
rhythms and by an amazing know how of break beats (as we know them of
electro, funk , drum ‘n bass and brain dance). [erzatz] is eclectic
but open to the public.
http://www.erzatz.org
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about
lab[au] |
lab[au]
- laboratory for architecture and urbanism
Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Pieter Heremans and Alexandre
Plennevaux
Founded
in 1995 LAB[au], the Belgian collaborative agency links theoretical
research LAB[a+u] to concrete works of conception and realizations LA.BAU.
In this manner LAB[au] elaborates a 'metadesign' investigating the implications
of new communication and computation technologies within spatio-temporal
(space-time) structures as well as their forms of representation such
as architecture and urbanism.
The transposition of inFORMation processes, transmission and computation,
in textual, graphical, three-dimensional forms, MetaDeSign, therefore
explores new space constructs proper to the electronic medium and so
illustrates the spatial and semantic mutation operated by technologies
which has turned into the main vector in the perception and conception
of our environment – ‘eSPACE CONSTRUCTionS’.
In order
to examine these implications of new communication and computation technologies
within spatio-temporal structures lab|au| develops a transdisciplinary
…> approach based on different artistic, scientific and theoretic
methods. As a collaborative agency …>, including different
partners from different disciplines, lab|au| sets up a network of transdiciplinary
work focusing on the specific modalities of IC technologies in their
setting of languages as well as their founding of a discipline, Meta.Design.
Based on
new working methods and processes and the setting of new working spaces
such as the 0.1lab and ESDN (electronic space development network] these
collaborative and transdisciplinary processes become an important vector
in the development, diffusion and mediation of projects.
Official website: http://www.lab-au.com
Complete biography: http://www.lab-au.com/bio2
Theory: http://www.lab-au.com/files/index.shtml
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