gamut inc explores the interaction of electronic and instrumental music. 2013 we developed a growing number of mechanical music-machines. More info on www.gamut-ensemble.de

gamut inc

music for automated pipe organs

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Digitalisation advances ever further into areas beyond the virtual—for the pipe organ, this opens up new artistic possibilities. All of the instrument’s parameters can now be controlled by computer via interfaces, while the sound is still created in the pipes of the organ. In this way, a meshing of instrumental and electronic music, the possibilities of which are largely untapped, can be achieved.

The international concert series AGGREGATE exposes this potential for artistic innovation in organ music of the 21st century over seven evenings of concerts in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Iceland. Composers with differing musical backgrounds and orientations have created new pieces for automated pipe organs, which will be realised on seven special but very different organs. Contemporary electronics, Neue Musik, avant-garde pop and noise music interweave with one another. Pioneering artistic strategies are explored, from purely automated organ concerts via combinations with instrumentalists to real-time control and synchronisation with electronics. 

AGGREGATE pursues the fundamental questions that computer controlled instrumental music poses: virtuosity and its overcoming, the limits of perception of highly compressed musical events, the crossovers and links between electronic and acoustic music, objective interpretation and the effects of mechanically precise reproduction.

AGGREGATE

gamut inc: spiritus vapores, movement II

gamut inc - automata - movement A

gamut inc : EX MACHINA (excerpts)
music for retro-futuristic music machines
realeasedate 30.01.2015
bółt / satelita 

gamut inc: EX MACHINA LP preview

gamut inc´s performance at HAU2 during CTM FESTIVAL 2016
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gamut inc : dreaming of electric sheep again - live at CTM festival 2016 / HAU2 Berlin

An excerpt of gamut inc´s composition Planet Nine:

Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet in the far outer Solar System. Planet Nine does not have an official name, and it will not receive one unless its existence is confirmed. The predicted planet is most likely a mixture of rock and ice with a small envelope of gas.

Planet Nine is a spectral composition by gamut inc for five automated wind instruments and a hybrid organ of the Logos Foundation – the world´s largest robot-orchestra. The instruments are controlled by computer, but produce the sound acoustically. The woodwinds-ensemble consists of a tuba, a heliophon, a bassoon, an alto-sax and a bass-clarinet. They have filtering modes and pitchbends which allow a deep control of the timbral quality as well as microtonal tunings and glissandi-effects. <Hybr> —a hybrid organ— reflects the discourse of computer-driven music-machines, as it is a link between the acoustic and electronic soundproduction: its tubes are driven by little speakers inside each of the organ ́s tubes, making it a hybrid indeed. 

Planet Nine is written mainly in just intonation and has a fractal structure, where each subdivision of the overall form reflects the main divisions‘ characteristics. For this we use Supercollider´s recurssive semi-automated patterns, that we finally align to our preference. Thus the composition-method is an automat itself.

Planet Nine

Planet Nine - Movement C

Excerpt from the cycle AGGREGATE
by gamut inc (Marion Wörle & Maciej Sledziecki)

Some pipe organs offer an interface, which allows all its parameters to be controlled by computer, while the sound is still created in the pipes of the organ. In this way, a meshing of instrumental and electronic music can be achieved.
The international concert series AGGREGATE exposes this potential for artistic innovation in organ music.

Recorded live by Paul Paulun at Kunst-Station St. Peter Cologne on February 1st 2020. 
no electronics, overdubs or electronic treatment involved

more on the project an live-dates: 
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AGGREGAT #5 (excerpt3)

satelita