A blog by Aalborg medialab, label and publisher block 4 http://www.block4.com Amongst the block 4 artists are Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner, whose work ranges from visual art, performance to sound and experimental music. The electronic music goes from Industrial via IDM to Noise, including projects like Notstandskomitee, TMS, Elektronengehirn, codepage, Akustikkoppler and Das Kombinat. This blog also bring news about synthesizers, media art,3D, free open source software and more.
Friday, May 24, 2024
Lithic Listening Helsinki 26. May
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Impressions from TMS concert 4.4.2024 Helsinki 3/3
Friday, May 10, 2024
Impressions from TMS concert 4.4.2024 Helsinki 2/3
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Artist-In-Residency Akureyri
Block 4 artists Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen and Malte Steiner are currently Artists-In-Residency at the Art Museum in Akureyri in Iceland till 21. May. Madsen continues her research and site-specific fieldwork which also includes field recordings of sounds. Steiner works on field recordings, detailing his art concepts and improving several of his artistic software programs.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Impressions from TMS concert 4.4.2024 Helsinki 1/3
At the Akusmata Polyphonic Festival Helsinki, TMS debut their new piece “Occurrences”. They have created a cybernetic system which registers and processes their sonic inputs coming from metal percussion and tactile resonance via piezo-microphones. The computer responds to their playing and calculates control data, not only for internal sound synthesis but also for an external modular synthesizer.The lower graph shows the input from 4 Piezos, 2 per performer. The computer analysis these signals and register timing, pitch and estimated formants, and randomly pick sequences from the data and controls with that internal and external synthesizer. The middle graph shows the computer output, on the top the pie diagrams show remaining data of the chosen sequences. Additionally the performers play custom synthesizer and process the sounds with pedals. The software is created with Pure Data for data analysis, storage and sequences, visuals are written in Python with PyGame library.