GOTH BEEKEEPING with Marius Presterud

For our next Scent Club meetup, Marius Presterud will present his practice and share a preview of his latest work still in progress: Last Oil - A last rite oil made from local plant ingredients. 

Karø Goldt - minimal/abstrakt
 8 short videos from 2001 - 2017, mostly abstract and with minimal sound.

HAARMANNHOMMELSHEIM - Die Umrandung des Nichts
"How can the nothing be described without describing something that is around this nothing?" - Georges Perec
How can one create space for the absent by the presence of sound? Christiane Hommelsheim sings and plays on sound objects, Ralf Haarmann...

Driftmachine LIVE
Modular visuals by Mika Shkurat
Modular synth maestros Driftmachine return  this November for another of their special A/V sessions at Spektrum.

Dear Modulist!

The Berlin Modular Crew is more than excited to host the third edition of the “what´s the patch” workshops. This time, something a bit special, let's focus on percussion patches Come an show us what crazy drum patches you've got going on! Whether is it distorted kicks, hi hat, bongo or crazy DnB generative drum sequencing... come and tell us about it! 

Welcoming once again artists , coders and creators interested in technology to assist to a special edition of SCS that will welcome the students of Maastricht Academy of Media Design and Technology on their visit to Berlin. In this occasion we will like to present to you a summary of what we have been involved in the last year.

Shis Unusual - Live set
Electronic experimentation with handmade modular synthesizers

L'Age d'Or - Orage Magnétique - Live A/V
L’Age d’Or is an immersive duo of electronic performances and contemporary installations. The performance features original content, focused around video-projection on 2 monolithic rectangular screens and a strobe light programming. The duo tries to redefine a unique and...

Dohi Moon - Pre-Proposition K
The performance features a keyboard and a keyboard and joystick-controlled “SingingMask”. I am interested in possibilities to control electronic and electro-mechanical sound generators by traditionally trained instrumentalists. This means finding the right balance to trigger unfamiliar results through familiar rehearsed playing techniques.

Doron Sadja - Dissolving...

The openFrameworks Berlin meetup is open to anyone who wants to join, from openFrameworks experts to openFrameworks beginners, from addicted processing sketchers to beginner cello musicians, from knitters to magicians.

VJ Open Lab is a Berlin-based community that organises monthly meetings for inspiration, experimentation, and knowledge exchange in the field of live video.

We are open to anyone interested in live visual arts and VJing to share their experience and their projects with the Berlin visual community. Beginners and visitors are kindly welcome.

Each meeting is divided into 3 parts:

1) Warm Up: 30...

• Yuri Landman – Solo
  In 2013 Landman started collecting odd modulation stomp boxes that function as rhythm creators and looping sounds coming from a wide range of electronic sound circuits, motorized instruments, kalimbas, steel on foam, amped soda pop bottles, string instruments, on the spot found objects and his long string instrument. Rythmic bleeps, bloops and other funny sounds.
• Performance by...

Artists:

• Dämmern (Wakkler, Krake)
• Demiurge (Klangscheiben, The POOL Berlin)

Action Without Action, by Joshua Legallienne, is a collection of sculptural works that produces acoustic sound through kinetic action without the use of loudspeakers, electronics, or conventional sources of energy.

Kosmische Glass by Timothy Didymus; both a musical instrument and art installation, technical development from glass harmonicas, with liquid-filled glasses played with fingers.

This is the Meetup for vvvv and VL interested open minds in Berlin. It is a place to meet and exchange ideas and experiences. It is open to anyone who wants to join, no matter if you are a vvvv expert or beginner, a famous or breadless artists, a designhead or technologist, a piano player or techno musician. We are especially open for newcomers and curious beginners and we try to make this meetup...

Hands-on session of the LC Lab (Live Cinema Lab), a place for audio-visual experimentation. LC Lab is a community where audio and visual artists can meet, create and play new work together.

We are proud to host a jam Session where everybody is welcome to join. We will have some kind of organized jam with a maximum number of participants each time. This jam is mainly focused on sounds made by code / software / hardware . But we welcome anyone to pass by and experiment with us. So prepare your raspberries , teensies , supercollider apps , max patches and so on for a spin.

TRASH! Ah our difficult relationship with the byproducts of our material fixation, we hate it, try to avoid it, conceal it! But how easy is it really to contain? Join us this next Tuesday for a voyage through the complicated relationship between waste and smell. Dr. Isabel Ordoñez will share with us her research about the scent of biodegradable waste, and their attempts at measuring smell!

Learn and teach how to use basic cryptography tools in a relaxed and respectful atmosphere.

No prior knowledge required: curiosity, wanting to learn, asking questions is all that's needed.

Bringing your laptop or smartphone would be useful. CryptoParties are always for free. 

Dear Modulists, Performance time!
Let's get together once more and go on a little trip around a few musical universes by having the community members performing for us. If you have a modular come up on stage, take control of the ship and lead us on a tour in your sonic world! 

A very special guest Moises Horta joins us for the 27th edition of our meet-up! Moises will give a short presentation about his work and interests in neural networks and how they can be used in the context of the movement based performances. He'll also talk a bit about his team's performance in this year's Music Makers Hacklab and how they used movement and sensors.

MOISÉS HORTA is an artist...

First set:

• Guilherme Rodrigues - Cello, Objects
• Richard Scott - Modular Synthesizer
• Ernesto Rodrigues - Viola

Second set:

• Emma Jane Lloyd - Violin/Viola, Electronics