5e7h & Zwölftonform _Andreas Lutz #128
Doors: 19:30
Start time: 20:00
- 5e7h - sound art performance by Seth Zahn
- Zwölftonform - audiovisual performance by Andreas Lutz
5e7h is the latest permutation of multiversed sound ecologist and pataphysical dragon tamer Seth Zahn. Having established extreme noise waveguiding through the tropics for more then 15 years, he is now riding oftenly in the old continent performing chaotic catechization for the whole family. That shall be accomplished by sourcing divine powers out of the free improv godz through voltage controlled mumbo jumbo techniques acquired in his infamous peregrinajes through the edges of brazilian plateaus. A nonstandard set up based on hardware modular synthesis patched before and during presentation provides the necessary conditioning and a careful entropy balance guarantees optimal conversion
Zwölftonform
Audio-visual performance (2015). Following the formal rules of dodecaphony, for "Zwölftonform" twelve consecutive titles are composed exclusively with twelve consecutive frequencies. The basic structure for each title is made up by up to twelve different sound samples from a previously generated sine waveform. The start frequency is fixed arbitrarily, following only the law of the successive addition, but may never be repeated in this episode. Built on this basis these arrangements reference and illustrate especially over time the complexity and increasing compression of the original shape. For the visual concept the sinusoidal waveform is abstracted and transferred along the album convention. By parameterized principles twelve visual embodiments of this basic shape arise. The increasing complexity is now visible and the prevailing simplicity at the beginning almost inverted by the end. This aesthetic is punctuated with a grid that divides the base with the value of the current sample number.
Andreas Lutz's (*1981 in Freiburg i. Br.) initial works refer to alternative human machine interaction and the approach, to create integrated and universal communication systems. In his recent work he increasingly analyzes and reveals phenomenons of perception versus reality and principles of abstract aesthetics with audio-visual installations. The creation of experimental soundscapes and the relation of semiotics and sound are further aspects of his work. Among others, Lutz’s work has been exhibited at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe (Germany), the National Art Center Tokyo (Japan), the OpenArt Biennale in Örebro (Sweden) and won the Excellence Award at the 19th Japan Media and Arts Festival.