...And Sugar

midi-piano, computer (audio/video)

video

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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.
Performances

  • Neue Aula, Folkwang University Essen, Germany [online]

  • ...And Sugar (Low-Sugar Version)
    ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany [online]
    next_generation 8.5

Simon Bahr

composer

Scrollbar

double bass

solo

double bass Javad Javadzade

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Scrollbar is a short solo-piece written for Javad Javadzade as part one of his project lockdown miniatures. It was written and recoreded in very little time and premiered on Javads facebook wall. Somehow corona lockdown raises an old question in a new way: What if you kept scrolling but never reached the ground?!

home-recording by Javad Javadzade

Fillin' the Feedback Form

improvised performance with analog hifi-mixers and computer

improv

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In No-Input-Mixing, the outputs of a mixer are connected to its inputs, creating feedback loops. Various different sounds can emerge, with different volume faders now controlling pitch, rhythm and spectral features of a sound. Fillin’ the Feedback Form confronts this wild and often unpredictabil instrument with highly organised digital algorithms that try to tame it.

@ Kunstverein Wesseling, 19.11.2020, as livestream from Antonia Grubers Solo Exhibition BIPOLAROID DISORDER
Performances

  • Kunstverein Wesseling, Germany [online]