Sounding DIY

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06 - 22 . 08 . 2018
MKC Split
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Artists: Tin Dozik, Claude Heiland-Allen, Noise Orchestra, Bioni Samp, Hrvoje 
Hirsl / Davor Branimir Vincze
Curators: Darko Fritz and Laura Netz

opening and live acts 6th August at 21 h
live acts by Hrvoje Hirsl / Davor Branimir Vincze and Tin Dozik.

The referential framework of the exhibition Sounding DIY relies on the 
so-called DIY culture (Do it Yourself), which emerged from the 1970?s as a 
reaction of the technological deployment. With influences of the underground 
vanguard movements, the handmade culture currently sets as an exponent of what 
is the free knowledge culture, read the open source and movements such as 
hacker and maker. The results of these practices involve an interdisciplinary 
connection between art, science, and technology that improves the creative 
aspects of contemporary cultural production. Moreover, sound art practices 
enrich the interconnection with music and engineering.

The exhibition pretends to highlight the DIY practices in front of the 
capitalist industry. Thus, represents an important change in the prototyping of 
musical instruments and sound objects that have effectively set as a primary 
creative impulse in our century. Sounding DIY works with artists in the field 
of handmade culture and promotes the efficiency of the results attained, either 
aesthetically and ideologically. Our goal is to highlight artistic creation 
through the development of new technologies and craftsmanship. Finally, 
Sounding DIY. fosters a community of tool developers and creative practitioners 
interested in supporting and understanding deep and sustained creative practice 
with technological tools.

Bioni Samp translates bee behaviors and sounds into electronic music to help 
raise awareness of the ecological issues threatening them. Electronic Beesmoker 
Hive Synthesiser is a found object (Beesmoker) with internal home-made 'Hive 
Synthesiser'. An updated version of 2009 version which originally acted as a 
modified breathe controller for MaxMSP patches. Now includes hardware home-made 
'Bee' synth with 3 oscillators, emulating bees. In each honey bee colony there 
are three types of bee: drone, worker and queen bees. Each of these have their 
own individual frequencies in the following ranges: low ? 200 Hz or less, mid ? 
200-400 Hz, and high ? 400+ Hz, just like the earth has its own special 
frequency of approximately 9 Hz. The oscillators are capped roughly within 
these ranges.

Puzzle (https://mathr.co.uk/puzzle/) by Claude Heiland-Allen investigates in 
the history of puzzles. The 15-puzzle craze in 1880 offered a cash prize for a 
problem with no solution. In the Puzzle presented here the computer is 
manipulating the tiles. No malicious design, but insufficient specification 
means that no solution can be found; the automaton forever explores the state 
space but finds every way to position the tiles as good as the last... Each 
tile makes a sound, and each possible position has a processing effect 
associated with it. Part of the Puzzle is to watch and listen carefully, to see 
and hear and try to pick apart what it is that the computer is doing, to 
reverse-engineer the machinery inside from its outward appearance.

Noise Machine by Noise Orchestra is an evil space metal box electronic circuit, 
a no.3 in the series of noise machines that translate light into sounds using 
analogue electronics. Inspired by Russian sound artists of the 1920s (inc. 
Arseny Avraamov), we did a sound graphical residency at the National Media 
Museum last year where we played the collections and undertook a research trip 
to Moscow (noiseorchestra.org). The noise machines are constructivist 
sculptural objects in themselves, they will be made from metal and wood, here 
is a link to twitter post of a paper prototype. Noise Orchestra, is a 
collective formed by Vicky Clarke and Dave Birchall.

Songs for anthropocen #2 by Tin Dozik is a work based on waste materials. 
E-waste, old tools, and other obsolete materials are used to create 
electroacoustic and mechanical instruments.

Project Strings is a collaborative work of the media artist Hrvoje Hirsl and 
the composer Davor Branimir Vincze. This sound and media research freely 
interprets the connection between the string theory and Pythagoras? harmonic 
theory by observing ?microscopic? frequencies and phenomena originating from 
the sensitization of the extremely long string. When we say that a certain 
sound has the frequency of the middle A, that is 440Hz, one refers to its 
fundamental frequency.

Digital album Sounding D.i.Y. by elektronische-art-and-music, 2017 including 
artists: Dom Alle, David Bloor, Dirty Electronics, Jukka Hautamaki, Hrvoje 
Hir?l, Optonoise, Prolonged Version and Signal Noise.
more at http://sivazona.hr/events/sounding-diy

Bioni Samp: Electronic Beesmoker Hive Synthesiser

Noise Orchestra

MKC Multimedijalni kulturni centar (http://mkcsplit.hr/)
Ulica slobode 28, Split

Monday-Saturday 10-13 h, 17-21 h
free entrance
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