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hardware orchestras
radia #474: rectangular grinder + radia #258: algorhythmic noises
[pls. scroll down for english version]

hier macht hardware die musik. wortwörtlich. wofür zunächst einmal ein gewisser forscherdrang – sowie mitunter die öffnung von technologien, mindestens jedoch die der ohren förderlich ist…

wie beispielsweise bei dr. klagendum aus rotterdam, der einen schleifapparat aktiviert.

oder auch bei shintaro miyazaki und michael chinen vom institute for algorhythmics, die gemeinsam die geräusche aus dem digitalen alltag vertrauter geräte und gadgets belauschen.

credits und hintergrundinformationen: siehe unten

[english]

hardwre makes the musik. literally. how? basically, it's due to the curiosity of sound researchers: open your maschines. and/or your ears…

now what about best practice exmaples? take this one:

"Dr Klangendum tries to open an harddisk with a rectangular grinder and while doing so recording the sound and processing that live. His first attempt fails but the processed sounds form part one. To be continued…" [D.K.]

Credits: Grinding, Dj BadVibes, Background Teeth Grinding, Dj Pausa, Eternal Love, Dj Bearsucker, Dr Klangendum.

afterwards, shintaro miyazaki and michael chinen from the institute for algorhythmics continue with putting schwartz' considerations into practical media archeology:

"'algoRHYTHMIC noise of our everyday gadgets' consists of a study with short snippets of audio examples about audificated processes of our everyday gadgets like our cell phones, cameras, smart phones and laptops. ausculations no. 1 to 16 are made by using a electromagnetic coil, no. 17 to 19 are made by audification processes of assembly code on software side (formal materiality) and ausculations no. 20 to 23 are produced with a HF-detector.

'algoRHYTHMIC noise of our everyday gadgets' is also a preliminary work for a more elaborated project about a 'sonic archeology of advanced everyday technologies'. archeology is meant following michel foucault's notion of thinking that we – when looking for meanings of things, but also their history – need to look not only for documents, but also for monuments. this means that the materiality of things and their physical effects should be investigated not only on the surface, but by 'digging deeper into' things or processes and by revealing and explaining the inner structures of black boxes. therefore we think that archeology is a more sophisticated term for hacking." [the institute for algorghythmics/michael chinen & shintaro miyazaki]

michael chinen (*1982) is a programmer and musician. He studied composition & computer science at university of washington, seattle/washinton state, electro-acoustic music at dartmouth college and was research student at tokyo denki university. lately he moved to berlin with the Fulbright research grant for wavefield synthesis at technische universität berlin.

shintaro miyazaki (*1980) is a theorist, artist and curator. he studied media studies, philosophy and musicology in basel, switzerland and is currently a PhD researcher at humboldt university berlin under prof. wolfgang ernst, holding a scholarship of the "cogito foundation". in 2008 he founded the “institute for algorhythmics”. find more info at www.algorhythmics.com

credits:
miss.gunst would like to thank the following artists and sound collectors:
jovica for the space machine, corsica s for some beautiful radiator sounds;
dr. klangendum and radio worm, rotterdam, as well as shintaro miyazaki and michael chinen from the institute for algorhythmics for making us listen to the sound of hardware;
and, as always radia.fm radio art network for being a crowd of incredibly creative partners.

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