Friday November 03, 2006

As already mentioned in an other entry lab.30, a media festival has started yesterday in my hometown Augsburg / Germany. Actually the exhibition IS much better than the last years and it has some real cool exponents...

Exhibition: To see, hear and feel.
For example an installation from Lynn Pook (Berlin/Paris) called "À Fleur de Peau - Audio-taktile Installation für einen Körper" (in english "audio tactile installation for a body"). The interrested visitors are invited to participate and if so they step into a small linnen cubicle and get wrapped with loudspeakers - actually that really looks like a medical bandage, a little bit perhaps like Frankenstein's monster - so that they can feel the music much more than hear it.

Another installation presents so called "printed circuit board objects" (Platinenobjekt) which have a very artistically layout - the subtitle is "Hardware hommage" and yes, that is it. These circuit boards from Ina Keckeis (Berlin) - are they etchings? Are they working small computers? Both. If you touch them they start to make some noises - and as there are many of them they start an own composition. Great.

Wham. Bang.
The concerts are much stranger: E.g. Florian Hecker's electronic noise. Or "Social Sounds", where sounds from allover the world has been merged into one big collage. Or the websounds in the party at the evening... Might be that an additional conference, workshops or a symposium would make sense to explain more of this kind of music. Is it music? Is it noise? Perhaps something between.

Looking forward to the next days...