Name: Mumpitz played by HSLU Bigband by Claudia Döffinger
Duration: 7 min 44 s
Description: some bigband music written and recorded in summer 2014.

SGNTR - TEASER

The sound material used on SGNTR was composed by a self-built random step sequencer, which controlled a music software via MIDI. Only standard sound presets were used for this purpose. The sound material produced in this way should be as neutral and free of intentionality as possible.

In a further step, random samples were determined and extracted from this sound material using a dicing technique. Afterwards these samples were played in a generative audio installation with four loudspeakers and four CD players in random mode. The installation served as the source of inspiration for the tracks on SGTNR.

SGNTR is about leaving authorship to the apparatuses. The sound designer only sets the parameters for each phase of the creative process, where random chance or an algorithm makes compositional decisions.

"There is no beginning and no end. Only states within the possibilities of the system. The moods created are like a promise that is never kept." Chris Obrist, January 2014

+ SGNTR +

+ MODU LARO + Don't Trick Me

+ EXPEDITION + 12024 (TEASER)
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Deep Listening Ambient Music

LIFEFORM 001 to 005 examines how synthesized sounds behave in real environments. In his aesthetic research, the artist searches for signs and indications of "life forms" in synthesizer sounds. To this end, he programs generative systems with modular synthesizers. At what point does it develop a life of its own?

In a generative system, the artist sets up rules according to which the modular synthesizer plays and creates a musical composition. The settings work on different layers and are fine tuned to each other. In this way, random chance develops patterns and forms that do not repeat themselves even in infinity. Can you call this evolution?

On youtube.com/@sonic-research you will finde some videos with visual content to the sound.

Sound and Artwork by
Chris Schuermann

+ EXPEDITION + 12024

+ AUTARK + Live Session

some bigband music written and recorded in summer 2014.

Mumpitz played by HSLU Bigband

Claudia Döffinger

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