SONUS - v2
Hoffnungsträger (2009), 00:15:20Olaf Hochherz http://shwobl.de
Nationality:
Residence: Germany
Biography: Born in Wuppertal in 1981, lives and works in Berlin. Study of composition at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen between 2002 and 2005. Further studies of philosophy and computer-science in Berlin. Since 2006 studying Mediengestaltung at Bauhaus Universität Weimar, working in the “Studio für elektroakustische Musik” (SeaM) at the Musikhochschule FRANZ LISZT.
Program Notes: Hope-carriers are small “beings” of short duration. They appear and disappear. They follow each other. Sometimes they appear in clouds, dispersed in a landscape. They may be similar to one another. They create gestures, rhythms, clouds that are stratified and fragmented. They form an associative field. Practically, they are the result of contingent, structural operations on sound recordings and the selection of specific constellations. They meet on two levels of production: the machinery of creation and the machine of selection, two machines, each with its own contingencies and therefore each with its specific determination of the music. They exist in a context of pseudo-deterministic lines. But why do they need this context? Selected lines, creating some small physical phenomena. Frequencies as lines. Lines as rhythms — pulsating. A line that passes through a harmonic field. A fluctuating restlessness. A line that approaches the “hope-carriers” and shifts away. Does this context create a form? A form that does not set the goal of defining a development or of controlling contrasts. A form that only enables one to detect something, that makes it possible for one to hear the sounds as something. What is there in this case? The linear sound creates context as form, opening up the possibility of interpreting the sounds in a spatial manner. Gestures appear be to continued behind the horizon. They are liberated from their own consistent appearance in the field of vision. This makes the associative field possible, since it is no longer reduced to its given representatives.
Studio of Composition: Home
Hardware Used: Piezomikrofon,Mixingboard
Software Used: linux,faust,ardour,supercollider
Performer(s):
Appeared In:
CEC: Sonus
CEC: JTTP 2009
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