Voice Array by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Voice Array by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer_
As a participant speaks into an intercom, their voice is automatically translated into flashes of light and then this unique blinking pattern is stored as a loop in the first light of the array. Each new recording pushes all previous recordings one position down and gradually one can hear the cumulative sound of the 288 previous recordings. The voice that was pushed out of the array can then be heard by itself. See more;

ECCOS by Andrew Norman Wilson

A slowed-down video of Ecco the Dolphin gameplay is used to create an experimental philosophical space that focuses on the phenomena of waves, this space is called "Center for Wave Change" by Andrew Norman Wilson. He tells us more about ECCOS, a 6 hours meditation video which is part of the "Center for Wave Change", a proposal project for the ongoing Rhizome Commissions. 

"ECCOS is based on an .mp4 video file of the gamer “RickyC” beating the Sega Genesis game Ecco the Dolphin in just under 80 minutes. I have slowed down the original file to a duration of six hours, because six hours is the maximum duration for sequences with high audio data rates in Final Cut Pro. I have applied “echo” filters on both the audio and video tracks, and pushed all values within those filters to the maximum. Full length video coming to DVD/VHS soon. Soundtrack available on CD/Cassette soon." See more;

Ruins in the distance by Daniel Karlsson

"Ruins in the distance" is a visual performance series made by composer and musician Daniel Karlsson. The following videos have been recorded in real time meanwhile Daniel played the visuals using physical controllers, changing the parameters of the audio and video synthesis. 

Daniel describes the audio is made by means of digital feedback in a computer and the video is the result of analysis of the audio. The visuals show some multiplied basic geometric shapes such as spheres and cylinders which take the analysis data from the audio. See more;

Ryoji Ikeda DB

"Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for the Hamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum’s east and west wings. The exhibition’s title db (short for decibel) refers to this symmetry while simultaneously indicating the complementary relationship between the two exhibition spaces. Ikeda has designed the white room and the black room as counterparts, not only physically (brightness, color), but also conceptually and perceptually. The project is a composition in which time and space are shaped through minimal use of sound, light and visual elements. The exhibition db is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Germany." - Hamburger Bahnhof. See more;

Years by Bartholomäus Traubeck

Years is a project made by Bartholomäus Traubeck in 2011, consisting in a record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music. Made using modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer.

"A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently." - Bartholomäus Traubeck. See more;

DUB-Russell X Akihiko Taniguchi

DUB-Russell (sound) and  Akihiko Taniguchi (visual) performed last 11.11.11 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo as part of CHANNEL # 1 show, produced by TMUG/BRDG. The visuals of  Akihiko have been created using Processing, this is a second version of an older project called 実家3D (3D Home). See more;

Soundcube by Bernhard Leitner

I really liked this sketches from one of the first sound projects called  Soundcube, made in 1969 by Bernhard Leitner. See more;

Karl Kliem

Karl Kliem aka Dienststelle is well known for his music installations, where sound and light are connected to create very minimalist environments. I really liked his monochromatic works where he used neons and leds to visualize the sound. He has collaboreted with many different artists such as Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto as well as Jan Jelinek, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner and Sleeparchive. See more;

VERSUS by David Letellier

Versus is a sound installation created by David Letellier. Consisting of two kinetic sculptures placed face to face. Each sculpture is made out of 12 triangular panels, hinged and powered by six linear actuators, controlled by a specific program. At the center of each corolla, a loudspeaker and a microphone allow to play and record sounds.

At regular intervals, each sculpture produces a sound, simultaneously recorded and analyzed by the opposite sculpture, which then moves according to the frequencies of this sound. Like a feedback loop, it then plays back the recorded sound, with the errors and disturbances caused by the reverberating space and the visitors. See more;

Musical spectrum analysis by Jon-Kyle Mohr

A circular musical spectrum analysis generated by Jon-Kyle Mohr who tells; "A musical tone consists of multiple overlapping sine-waves oscillating at varying rates. This motion graphic represents the isolated frequencies and rhythmic patterns of Ryan York's “If I Am This Forest”. Of particular interest is the swell beginning at 0:45, and multiple simultaneous frequencies which form the single melodic vocal line at 2:05.  

Andrew Ohlmann expanded on this by writing a Quartz Composer sketch which dynamically generates a similar form. To explore the spectrums of familiar compositions I suggest downloading ReFreq." See more;

Yousuke Fuyama

"Yousuke Fuyama was born in Nagano, Japan, 1983. He is an artist, composer, programmer, visual and graphic designer, and VJ. He has been studying musical research and sound art and completed Master’s Degree in Media Science at Tokyo University of Technology Graduate School of Bionics, Computer and Media Sciences. His main focus on the expressions through data interconversion using various interfaces and programmes. He also works as a sound designer / programmer in a production company in Tokyo and designs interactive systems, develops devices and manages visual directions." See more;

Wave of Possibility

Wave of Possibility is a collaboration project between Tiffany Singh and Auckland Print Studio, consisting in a series of 6 multi-layered lithographic prints made in two main stages;
"To start, 12 plates were produced by placing steel-backed, photo-sensitive lithography plates upon a sound "transducer". Using a Macbook Pro and Garage Band, a synthesized flute instrument played individual notes which were converted into vibrations by the transducer, generated specific visual displacement patterns in a coating of silicon carbide granules (100-grit). Each note was stopped and the resultant pattern of opaque grit was exposed onto the plate with 9-minutes exposure to UV light--each grain of carbide becoming a printing mark. These plates were then arranged and printed in layers or "Chords" using analogous colours. Each print has a stacking of 3 to 5 pattern-layers and run through the colours of the spectrum." See more;

The Company

The Company is a sound reactive light installation commissioned for the Bring To Light festival in Brooklyn NYC. A collaboration work between creative coder Andrea Cuius and designer Roland Ellis. The project consists in a suspended surface of 76 tungsten lamps form a catenary arch, playing host to live performances and revisiting the sounds of the 19th century East River industrial icons. Live adaptation of the soundscape reintroduces routine and mechanical process to the space. The piece intends to bring back an atmosphere informed by the architectural legacy, a machine being delivered to occupy the space that was once a bustling industrial environment. By either producing sounds or just reactive to the inputs from the environment, The Company is a sound reactive light installation. See more;

YOSHI SODEOKA · SPECIAL POST

"Violet Dark Spring of the Numinous Orb" (2011)

I'm so pleased to announce the following interview of the great japanese New York based artist Yoshi Sodeoka. I'm a big fan of his mesmerizing audiovisual carrier and interested on all around it, today he tells us everything about this trajectory, including details which he had never told before. As a exclusivity, Yoshi presents here at Triangulation as a first time online one of his new pieces called "Violet Dark of Spring of the Numinous Orb". 

Sodeoka’s psychedelic video, sound art and prints  are a dystopian clash of noise and beatitude. His projects have been shown all over the world, from London’s Tate Britain, New York City’s Deitch Projects, Paris’ Festival Némo, Edinburgh’s MU, São Paulo’s Rojo Nova, Barcelona’s OFFF, Baltimore Museum of Art, London’s OneDotZero, Barcelona’s Sonar Festival, Haifa Museum Israel, Berlin’s Transmediale, Poland’s Krakow Film Festival. See more;

Shlohmo - Just Us

"Just Us" is the new promo for Shlohmo, directed by Arthur Chance. Really cool work, love the installation+visuals+song! See more;

Octfalls by Ryoichi Kurokawa

"Octfalls" is an audiovisual installation by Ryoichi Kurokawa, exhibited during the 54th Venice Biennale,  Arsenale Novissimo, Venice,  2011. Consisting in 8 HD displays and 8ch multi sound, duration: 08'00".

Ryoichi Kurokawa, Japanese artist, born in 1978. Kurokawa’s works take on multiple forms such as installation works, recordings, and concert pieces. He composes the time sculpture with the field recordings and the digital generated structures, and reconstructs architecturally the audiovisual phenomenon. In recent years, his works are shown at international festivals and museums including Tate Modern, ARS Electronica, Transmediale, Mutek, Sonar and Venice Biennale. See more;

Varfix by Kotaro Tanaka & Kensuke Fujii

“Varfix” is a great and crazy piece animated by Kotaro Tanaka. The nice sound was  composed by Kensuke Fujii. "This music sounds somewhat monophonic, so this video was made such as polyphony in contrast. Animation can make events not only simple but easy to understand. Each elements used in this video separate from the meaning which they have originally, they are used for only representing something dynamic." See more;

Interactive Robotic Painting Machine by Benjamin Grosser

Benjamin Grosser has created a performing "Interactive Robotic Painting Machine" which uses artificial intelligence to paint its own body of work and to make its own decisions about what it does while being influenceable by others. Like Benjamin says, "to understand this, I suggest you consider the machine an artist in its own right. Just as a human artist is influenced by what they hear, the machine is influenced by what it hears. What it makes will be different in the absence of input, but it is not easy to trace how that input manifests as change." See more;

SKATE 1.0 by Electroland

SKATE 1.0 is a sound and light installation by Electroland. It's an abstract virtual skateboard park manifested through an immersive light and sound installation. 60 four-foot HO dimmable fluorescent lights and a 12.2-channel sound system generate 300,000 lumens of pure white-light attitude. Skater sounds travel above, below, around and through the viewer while the lights register their movement and intensity on the space and on viewer's bodies. Sunglasses advised. See more;

Realigning My Thoughts On Jasper Johns by JK Keller

"Realigning My Thoughts On Jasper Johns" by JK Keller is a great glitched work which is  part of an ongoing exhibition at Fach & Asendorf Gallery where you can see the project presented in a 9 screen grid and adjust the volumes and video, see here. 

JK Keller told us interesting info about the amazing distorted process;

"The original video is Simpsons season 10, episode 19, "Mom and Pop Art". I ripped all the frames, then used software to turn the ripped images into vectors. Then I processed the files through Illustrator using the default Alignment & Distribution tools (23 different combinations). The resulting files were then brought back together for the 23 final videos. " See more;