Data Event 42.0

Radius Music by Dave Young aka Henderson Six

When:
Thursday, 29th of July, 6.30pm

Loc­a­tion:
Sci­ence Gal­lery, Trin­ity Col­lege Dub­lin on Pearse Street in The Naughton Institute.

Presenters:
NIGHT VISION: Andrew Fog­arty [IE] (Boys of Sum­mer, Weil Rats) and Gavin Prior [IE] (United Bible Stud­ies, Deser­ted Vil­lage label) both gradu­ated from the Uni­ver­sity of Lim­er­ick Mas­ters in Music Tech­no­logy course in dif­fer­ent years. Since then they’ve both gone on to explore more prim­it­ive home-made elec­tronic music-making. Gavin first heard Andy play solo as Bul­lets in 2003 at the end of a mara­thon swan­song con­cert for Dublin’s Black­fort Gal­lery. There was very little hap­pen­ing noise-wise in Dub­lin then so it was some­thing of a revelation.

In autumn 2004 they formed Toy­mon­ger when Andy was asked to open for Zil­lah and Black Sun. Since then they’ve played Dublin’s Rock and Roll Mother­fucker fest­ival and both Guantanamo Noise Fest­ivals in Lim­er­ick. They’ve toured Ire­land with Chris Corsano and Talibam! as well as sur­viv­ing a UK/Ireland tour with Birds of Delay. Dub­lin per­cus­sion­ist David Lacey also played in Toy­mon­ger for a while but record­ings from the trio era have yet to sur­face. The Night­vi­sion was recor­ded entirely live in mono in one after­noon and is sim­ilar to a Toy­mon­ger gig in that it was entirely impro­vised. The ‘mon­ger play amp­li­fied sheetso’steel, har­monic gui­tars, drum machines, cir­cuit bent cheap key­boards; the usual detritus. In any case the equip­ment is con­stantly break­ing down and is never fet­ish­ised – The atmo­spheres cre­ated are always more import­ant than mere exper­i­mental tinker­ing. “The Night­vi­sion” prof­fers up four anxiety-ridden, dread-fueled creep­ers of scrap­ing metal, white noise, and drip­ping feed­back; the amp­li­fied creak­ing of attics, base­ments, vacant ware­houses, and every other haunt that har­bors ghosts and phantom monsters

Dave Young aka Hende­r­sonSix [IE]

Dave Young is a new media artist cur­rently based in Dub­lin, often work­ing with elec­tron­ics, sound and archi­tec­tural ideas in order to cre­ate gen­er­at­ive and inter­act­ive events. He is cur­rently in his final year of study at The National Col­lege of Art and Design, Dub­lin, and has com­pleted writ­ing a thesis titled Gen­er­at­ive Sys­tems: Author­ship, Obsol­es­cence and Pro­duc­tion in Brian Eno’s 77 Mil­lion Paint­ings. He is a mem­ber of the Dodo Col­lect­ive, an inter­na­tional arts group ded­ic­ated to explor­ing the rela­tion­ship between media and obsol­es­cence, exhib­it­ing with them at the Dark­light Film Fest­ival; the inaug­ural Jab­ber­wocky 1 art/poetry event; and at ExchangeDub­lin. He has also par­taken in Dark­room: an exhib­i­tion of young new media artists in Dub­lin, and the Breizh Entropy Con­gress — an exhib­i­tion of open source media in Rennes, France.

About Radius Music:
Radius Music com­bines ideas of car­to­graphy and graphic scores as a means to pro­duce sound, and inter­rog­ates the role of the body-in-space in the per­form­ance of elec­tronic music. The device itself is an autonom­ous revolving machine that reads a dis­tance value in real-time between itself and another object. As the machine slowly rotates and scans the room, it takes this radial dis­tance and out­puts it as a rel­at­ive sonic fre­quency and a cor­res­pond­ing visual score.

TRAFFIC: Rachel O’Dwyer and Roberto Pugliese [IE/IT]
By com­ing to Sci­ence Gal­lery you are par­ti­cip­at­ing in and con­trib­ut­ing to an ever-changing sound­scape. Sensors posi­tioned inside and out­side the gal­lery mon­itor your move­ment through the phys­ical space, while soft­ware mon­it­ors the vir­tual pres­ence of activ­ity on the gallery’s net­work, turn­ing these para­met­ers into sound. As the motion of people, objects and inform­a­tion in the space ebbs and flows, so the sound­scape reacts, chan­nel­ling your move­ment back into the space. You’ll also be able to see where the two lay­ers of traffic, the vis­ible and the invis­ible, show par­al­lel pat­terns of activ­ity, self-organisation and emer­ging behaviours.

L.S.D: Light to Sound Device. Ben­jamin Gaulon & Patrick Cashin [FR/IE] YouTube Preview Image

Research and recent innov­a­tions have led to an amaz­ing increase of types and uses of visual dis­plays and screens; indeed, in our pre­dom­in­antly visual cul­ture, they are every­where. A typ­ical per­son car­ries at least one device with a screen, is presen­ted with them in pub­lic places, uses them at work and in many leis­ure activ­it­ies. They are so ingrained in our every­day acts and habits that we don’t even notice them any­more. L.S.D invites its users to engage in a new per­cep­tion of their daily envir­on­ment. In eco­logy this class of rela­tion­ship is called com­mens­al­ism. L.S.D feeds on light via two LDR (light depend­ing res­istor) moun­ted on a suc­tion cup, allow­ing the sensors to be moun­ted on any screen sur­face. An ana­logue syn­thes­izer con­verts the light input to sound waves. This device can be used in many dif­fer­ent con­fig­ur­a­tions and feeds from any light sources. Even if L.S.D can be con­trolled by any light source, its design is aimed at screen reading/listening.

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Data Event 41.0

Data Event 41.0 | Karl Klomp


Watch Data 41.0 here Thursday, 29th of April, 6.30pm.

When:
Thursday, 29th of April, 6.30pm

Loc­a­tion:
Sci­ence Gal­lery, Trin­ity Col­lege Dub­lin on Pearse Street in The Naughton Institute.

Presenters:
Karl Klomp [NL] is a media artist and video tech­ni­cian at Toneel­groep Ams­ter­dam. His main work focusses on cre­at­ing live video manip­u­la­tion tools and glitch art. Since 2005 he’s build­ing numer­ous video hard­ware tools for his per­form­ance and for other artists. Together Tok­tek (Tom Ver­brug­gen) they play there live cinema set where cir­cuit bend video mix­ers and audio tools are co author of there min­imal and raw unbridle per­form­ance. He often teams up with Gijs Gieskes to teach cir­cuit bend­ing to other artists and musicians.

Paul Hegarty [IE] teaches philo­sophy and visual cul­ture in the French depart­ment, Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Cork. He is the author of numeorus art­icles on noise music, and the book Noise/Music (Con­tinuum, 2007). He is cur­rently work­ing on Bey­ond and Before: Pro­gress­ive Rock since 1960 (due out late 2010). He plays in the groups Safe and La Société des Amis du Crime, runs the record label dot­dot­dot­music, and helps organ­ise Black Sun weirdo/avant music nights with Vicky Langan.

Kim Cas­cone [US] foun­ded Silent Records in 1985, released more than forty albums of elec­tronic music, has per­formed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Scan­ner, John Tilbury, Tony Con­rad, Pau­line Oliv­eros among oth­ers. Worked on David Lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Wild at Heart’ as Assist­ant Music Editor. Cas­cone is the founder of the .micro­sound list and has writ­ten numer­ous essays on post-digital music for aca­demic journ­als and new media magazines.


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