midi-piano, computer (audio/video)
The stage setup of “…And Sugar” consists of a screen with a black and white video projection and a piano, resembling early day silent movies. However, in certain respects it is transferred to the present: the automated piano plays itself and the black and white surface of the video is digitally reinterpreted by means of a binary rasterisation and transformation.
Recorded at Neue Aula, Folkwang Uni, Essen, on 06.07.2021.
snare drum, electronics, soundfile, video
My desperate attempt to collect “an internet full of opinions” lead to 995 Pages Of YouTube Comments In Alphabetical Order – at least I tried. Authorship and context are simply erased in this corpus, leaving space for imagination and recombination.
Leave A Comment is build upon these opinions, trying to take them as serious as possible. A selection of comments was made, all including a time-tag linking to their anonymised original point of reference. They were incorporated into the piece, with the music constantly trying to satisfy all articulated wishes.
Everybody is talking. Everybody? No, a small snare drum is patiently listening to all those interfering voices.
@ pina bausch theater, essen-werden, 28.01.2020
bluetooth speaker, quadrophonic soundfile, video
A singing bluetooth speaker is presented on a grotesquely large stage and is illuminated by a video projection composed of black and white planes only: New Playlist is a scenically presented fixed media piece. The playlist was selected exclusively for this special event, but the wifi connection breaks down. Reconnect! Next Track, please!
@ pina bausch theater, essen-werden, 05.07.2019
installation with text on screen and four soundfiles
Music shapes identity, the sense of belonging and distinction. Everyone has something to say about music, although these ‘somethings’ can vary a lot depending on a persons (sub-)cultural affiliation or level of expertise. One can never know all about music: The more one knows, the more questions arise.
We all have a lot of different authorities to answer our questions: parents, teachers, friends, pop stars, TV show hosts, bartenders, etc. The internet is flattening the differences between the asking and the answering entity. We ask the internet, the internet asks us – we ask each other. Thousands of questions remain unanswered on the servers of popular question-and-answer websites. But even if they lack an explicit answer, they tell a lot about the person asking.
FAQ picks 1000 randomly chosen questions on the topic of music from the internet and outputs them one by one. This process is repeated over and over again. On four headphones different sound pieces are played, also repeatedly. They deal with different ways and formats of answering. The third part of the installation is a text-file containing 121394 questions on music from the internet in alphabetical order, which can be downloaded to a smartphone or laptop.
online installation with live generated synthesizer melody, audio-/videoloop, text
The key element of the piece ANTHEM is a live-generated synthesizer melody. Its tones are triggered by new followers of donald trump on twitter: With each new follower – meaning: with every increasement of the number of his follower relative to the previous value – a tone of the american national anthem is played. If the number decreases and increases again, tones are repeated. If the number increases very fast, tones are skipped. As a result, the melody becomes fragmentary.
__with every tone you hear, donald trump has a new follower on twitter. and every time donald trump has a new follower on twitter, you hear a tone.
The online version does no longer work, because twitter enhanced data security. Please view the video version instead!