16 July 2016 | 19:00

The Society for Nontrivial Pursuits #176

Doors: 18:30 
Start time: 19:00 
Entrance: 5-10 euro (up to your offer)

An evening with THE SOCIETY FOR NONTRIVIAL PURSUITS

Complex behaviors, whether in feedback systems, chaotic circuits, social systems and/or computer programs are fascinating objects of study. The Society for Nontrivial Pursuits (students, alumni and associates of the class Generative Art / Computational Art at UdK Berlin) explores the possibility spaces of such systems for experimental performance. They design, build and program their own audio/visual performance systems based on a variety of devices, sensors, analog electronics, and software synthesis, and use them in extremely diverse projects, often intended for performance contexts. 

Performances (in no particular order)

YU XIAOLU & WANG RUOHAN, SC SOUND & ILLUSTRATION

THA C K TRIO: TILL BOVERMANN, ALBERTO DE CAMPO, HANNES HOELZL (ELEC) + CHRISTIAN SCHMIDTS (VIZ)

FATEMEH + ROOZBEH: SANTOUR & ELECTRONICS

MATIAS BRUNACCI: ANALOGICA

ISAK HAN & SUNGEN JIN: THE HARMONY
Synthesis of two worlds we try to harmonise acoustic and electronic force-fields, without them aspiring to mutually deactivate each other but keeping both – the organic and the electronic – in balance. That is what the future will be about. 

GIL FUSER & CHRIS HÖHNSUN & VICENA

WOLFGANG KICK: GUERILLA-BALLADE
The Ballade in g minor by Frederic Chopin played again and again, each time in a different place, on a different piano. We jump from a live performance of the pianist to projections of recorded performances. The piece is constantly interrupted by sudden cuts, but yet continues its romantic musical dramaturgy.

EERO NIEMINEN: DIGITAL SELECTA

NICOLAS LEFORT & HAYE HEERTEN: FUTURE ACRHIVES
Surfing quantum mechanics on a relativity theory board is not an easy ride. But we will try our best to guide you through spacetime, past and future memories, multiple layers of high-story under low-ground. What is to discover remains unknown... Come, come along.

HAYE HEERTEN: FIELD GENERATOR 
Haye Heerten conjures an immaterial volume between two hexagon-shaped electronic instruments. You can see and hear a succession of impulses flowing in a continous feedback loop. The existence of the field is directly influenced by subtle movements of the instruments. Present-day technology enables us to dream up and construct virtual realities and immaterial entities. We use feedback loops as a core principle when we try to approximate natural processes with technological means, nevertheless it's difficult to develop an intuitive understanding for them. This project investigates very direct haptic manipulation of otherwise untouchable dynamics.

BLUE STORK: SPLITTERBOO (first turn (never go first w monarch))
SuperCollider + game controller