timodufner, Ignaz Schick & Eliad Wagner #104
Doors: 19:30
Start time: 20:00
timodufner - Markov Chain #47
Markov Chain #47 is a audio-visual performance based on machine learning algorithms and sensorial input as well as local radio signals. The Audio and Video is generated by separate markov chains (a statistical model based on random decisions) but both parts are interacting at the moment of presentation. The artist himself is reduced to be a moderator or curator of the show.
YEMEN BREAKFAST
Ignaz Schick (turntables, live-electronics)
Eliad Wagner (analog synths, electronics)
timodufner is a sound and visual artist in the field of media and information technology. As a VJ, he performs as an AudioVideo Live Act. The main focus of his work lies in the exploitation of software failures, so called glitches, real time processing, live coding, machine learning as well as the direct interaction of sound and image. Past performances took place (excerpts) at the ZKM (Centre for art and media) Karlsruhe, the LPM Rome, RadicalDB Saragossa (Price: Best International AV Artist 2015), the Sophia Digital Art in Sophia and the Genius Loci & Genius Loci Lab at Weimar.
Part of the transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2016 festival
Ignaz Schick is a turntablist, sound artist, performer & composer. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistent for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl. From the middle of the nineties onwards his interest and activities almost completely shifted towards live-electronics and after testing various instrumentations (hard- & software samplers, signal processing, contact mics, field recordings, …) he developed his own and quite unique electro-acoustic set-up which he calls “rotating surfaces”. Various objects and materials (from wood, metal, plastic, paper or violin bows and cymbals) are played directly on the rotating metal plate of the turntable and the vibrations are simply amplified with a small condensator microphone. Since 2005 he has realized several sound installations and has frequently given lectures & workshops about experimental turntablism and improvisation.
Eliad Wagner (b. 1979, Israel) is a composer, performer and sound artist. A classically trained musician, holding academic degrees in physics and music, his activities explore the meeting point of composition and improvisation while addressing thoughts on synthesis, music technology, autonomous processes, alternative scoring and live performance. By working with process and interference, Wagner examines the human natural relation with technology. In 2012 Wagner relocated to Berlin, where he currently lives and works. As a performer he has played and improvised with many artists including Peter Brötzmann, Conny Bauer, Ignaz Schick, Louis Rastig, Wolfgang Seidel, Laurens van der Wee, Klaus Kürvers, Alexi Borisov, Olga Nosova, Johannes Bergmark, Korhan Erel, Tristan Honsinger, Olaf Rupp and Els Vandeweyer. Wagner’s work has been published by Metropolis [US], Digital Kranky [DE], c.sides [DE/IL], Must Die [UK], Wachsender Prozess [DE] and concrete plastic [UK]. Among others, his work has been presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Computer Music Journal (MIT press), STEIM and the Danish Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus.