TANGIBLE MUSIC CLUB

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Nov 24 saw the launch of the TANGIBLE MUSIC CLUB at the Stadtwerkstatt -
a new series and co-operation between the Tangible Music Lab and the Stadtwerkstatt.
The TANGIBLE MUSIC CLUB runs until 2025.

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With a series of events and performances, the TANGIBLE MUSIC CLUB aims to establish a network for interactive electronic music in Linz and to address the trend towards self-built electronic musical instruments and interfaces in the contemporary music and club scenes.

With the expertise of the University of Art, the invited artists and the STWST, projects and artists will be presented and new presentation formats for innovative musical instruments will be jointly promoted.

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TAM Club III - Stadtwerkstatt - Wed, 22. Jan 2025, 7 pm

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Anti Discipliatory Media and Sound Art

Kevin Blackistone will be presenting a new, improvised electronic set showcasing his recently developed system which uses artificial intelligence systems to live-learn his style of performance from sound and movement. It will then punish him, through electroshock, for predictability. The set will try to build electronic melodies, rhythms and textures that are performatively coherent, while simultaneously attempting to fight the algorithm to create only sound/motion patterns that are novel. Through this set he will receive the pain-based feedback of his electronic antagonist, having to balance his desire to perform particular structures, against an interest in penal avoidance.
Much in the way the public must find new, often frustrating, ways to interact around corporate and governmental interventions such has hostile architecture, and algorithmic profiling, the musician must find evasive improvisations to satisfy the self, the algorithm… and ultimately… ..the audience.

Kevin Blackistone (US/AT) is an anti-disciplinary media artist and researcher using immersive, tangible, participatory and performative elements as tools for exploratory engagements. His current focus investigates the networks of cross-interactions between our human organism(s), its habits, habitats & inhabitants, and their technological interrelations from cultural, medical and ecological perspectives. His background includes a BA in Intermedia and Digital Arts (US), post-bac research with the Laboratory of Neurogenetics (US), an MA in Interface Cultures (AT), as well as recent participation in the Institute for Digital Sciences Austria x Ars Electronica Founding Lab. He has shown, performed and exhibited works at festivals and venues including Ars Electronica Festival (AT), Siggraph Asia (JP & AU), Mapping Festival (CH), Zeiss-Großplanetarium (DE), Miraikan (JP) and City Digital Skin Arts (CN/SG/IT/DE) and, with this performance, revealing his MA thesis for the Postdigital Lutherie program of Kunstuniversität Linz (AT). https://blackistone.com/

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Experimental Multiinstrumental Sound

Martí Ruids will showcase some the possibilities of the new soundsculptures built during his course at the Post Digital Lutherie Master Course and his art residence at Salzamt. These sound devices are inspired by the Baschet system for creative applied acoustics; deeper explorations on how to define sound by playing with the relationships between materials, shapes and action. As usual in his courses and experimental building every new soundsculpture is unique and offers exciting chances for exploration, so the inaugural performance is conceived as an opening improvisational dialog among his musical intuitions and the intrinsic musicality of the objects.

Martí Ruiz i Carulla, Barcelona 1982. Sound Artist. Graduated, Master’s, and PhD in Fine Arts, initially specializing in sculpture and drawing, he combines his musical vocation as an experimental multi-instrumentalist in an interdisciplinary adventure driven by love and curiosity for everything that sounds. University lecturer and researcher, head of the Sound Art Laboratory at the Faculty of Fine Arts (which he has been part of since 2008), coordinator of the Baschet UB Sound Sculpture Workshop, and director of the Master’s in Sound Art, he works in acoustics applied to the creation of objects and interactive sound sculpture for inclusive participation. This has led him to work in museums, universities, and cultural centers, with exhibitions, lectures, concerts, and workshops in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, California, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Romania, Russia, China, and Japan.
After his doctoral thesis on the work and acoustic system of the Baschet brothers, his research focuses on the characterization of the sound behavior of shapes and materials, accessibility in art, and interdisciplinary intersections between educational, cultural, and museological policies, rethinking the strategies necessary to make artistic mediation compatible with new paradigms of conservation and restoration of interactive contemporary art. http://tallerbaschet.cat/

Also on STWST Clubeite: Tangible Music Club III

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TAM Club II - Mi, 11. Dez 2024

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Electronic, Experimental, Performance

Amelie Nilles is a French composer of avant-pop music and spatial audio expert from Paris, drawing inspiration from her background in singing and drumming on the jazz music scenes. Explorer of experimental realms, she offers an aesthetic approach to spatialisation in her music. Under the guidance of composer Régis Renouard-Larivière, she honed her skills in electroacoustic composition, while she was simultaneously pursuing her Master’s degree at Paris 8 University, delving into research exploring the spatial dimension of music. Constantly in the process of creating sound environments, she crafts captivating soundscapes weaving together her voice, field recordings, electronic textures, and organic rhythms.

In November 2021, she unveiled her debut EP, ‚A croqué le fruit étrange’, on Planisphère label, introducing listeners to her deeply personal and experimental universe, both dark and pop. Since then, she has performed live at various venues across Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal and Slovenia ; has designed multichannel sound installations, collaborating with diverse artists along the way.

Among the themes dear to her, she challenges the intrusion of technology in every aspect of our lives without ever questioning it. While we tend to forget that humans are living beings among others, she advocates for a re-humanization of society, in opposition to trans-humanism.
Photo credit: Luka_Kranjec

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Boris Shershenkov will be the local artist.
He will play an an optomechanical synthetizer he built. Mtba soon.

Also on STWST Clubeite: Tangible Music Club II

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TAM Club I - Wed, 20. Nov 2024

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Multi-Channel-Performance mit OTTOSONICS Soundsystem

MUTUALISMX by 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰 is a planetary-spanning collaborative A.I. music project that redefines the use of artificial neural networks in music creation. This performance integrates ritualistic soundscapes with experimental electronic textures, utilizing the advanced capabilities of the OTTOSONICS soundsystem for spatialized audio. The project is built around SEMILLA.AI, a neural audio synthesis tool designed by 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰 , which embodies both traditional and state-of-the-art sound technologies, and that will be used to channel the A.I. Mutuals of the collaborating musicians. SEMILLA.AI allows artists to explore neural audio synthesis by exposing parameters to musicians, encouraging a hands-on interaction with the 'latent space' of AI sound generation. The collaboration with OTTOSONICS aims to create an immersive environment where each sound evolves as a physical entity in space, drawing the audience into a shared experience of transformation and interconnectivity.

MUTUALISMX challenges the biases inherent in mainstream AI models by adopting a 'small data' approach, which emphasizes diverse cultural perspectives. The project features contributions from a wide array of international artists, including KMRU, Ale Hop, El Irreal Veintiuno, and many others, blending their sonic identities into a cohesive, genre-defying compilation album. The result is an abstract and experimental journey that unfolds with the coherence of a single-artist album, yet is infused with the unique voices of each contributor. The performance, like the album, is a counter-narrative to mainstream AI-generated music, offering a dynamic and decentralized exploration of new possibilities in sonic art.

Artists:

hexorcismos / 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰: Moisés Horta Valenzuela (b. 1988), known as 𝔥𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔯𝔠𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔬𝔰, is an artist, A.I. technologist, and musician from Tijuana, Mexico, specializing in computer music and the cultural dimensions of new generative technologies. His work blends ancient and contemporary sound technologies, exploring themes like divination, technology, and transcultural traditions through installations, performances, and experimental music instruments. Valenzuela has presented at festivals like Ars Electronica, MUTEK, Transmediale and CTM Berlin, and received the “A.I. Newcomer 2023” award in arts from the German Association of Informatics. His notable projects include SEMILLA AI, which merges Mesoamerican divination practices with neural networks, and workshops like “Latent Soundings” at BEK: Bergen Center for Electronic Arts. Recently, he presented a generative sound installation titled 'Polylithic' at Bunker Gallery in Copenhagen produced during a residency in Sound Art Lab in Stuer, Denmark. Photo credit: Guxor
http://semilla.ai http://hexorcismos.bandcamp.com https://otherpeople.bandcamp.com/album/mutualismx

Laura Adel is an interdisciplinary artist pursuing a PhD on “The Tenderness of Art: Research and Creation of Immersive Interactive Installations” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, supervised by Prof. Jakub Jernajczyk. There, she also lectures at the New Media Department. Currently researching at the University of Applied Arts in Linz, Austria, she is working under mentorship of Prof. Martin Kaltenbrunner to enhance her sculptural objects with tangible interactivity. In her artistic practice, she seeks the delicacy of the digital world, creating abstract, moving images inspired by natural phenomena. Laura’s works have been featured in exhibitions at renowned venues, including the Contemporary Art Centre Łaźnia in Gdańsk and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Wroclaw—Pavilion of Four Domes. She participated in the MagiC Carpets program—part of the European Union’s Creative Europe platform—due to which she undertook residency at Wroclaw Institute of Culture. Her video works are also part of the Urban Screen Production collection and have been exhibited internationally, including in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
instagram.com/lauhra_adel/ https://www.lauraadel.com

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Also on STWST Club Site: Tangible Music Club I

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Further events will follow and will be posted online as they happen: MORE TBA SOON.

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A pilot event of the Tangible Music Club has already taken place at STWST48x10 NOPE in Sept. At STWST48x10, the artists were Merche Blasco and Jonas Hammerer

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… STWST's funders
Linz Kultur, Kulturland OÖ, BMKOOES

Extra funded by Linz Sounds, Linz Kultur.