PAKET (2009-2010)

PAKET is an audiovisual album - a compilation of 10 pieces which explore sound, imagery, behaviour and composition. Works like 'Gamut' create soundscapes from a user's webcam feed, while signal strength, battery use, and time of day all become compositional elements in 'Mobile Musik'. The rapid-fire clicks and blips of 'Making a Man' are all generated from combinations of DNA code found in a strand. NASDAQ Aug 07-09 tries (and fails) to find a pattern in the numbers of the stockmarket - static ping-ponging between speakers for gains and losses. Spreeform delves into raw audio, creating a new sonic landscape from the topography of Berlin's well-known river. Grenze Tönen produces flickering high-frequency sine waves, exploring the liminal spaces of both human listening and sound-reproduction systems. In 'sleep.less.night', text from writer Emma Phillips is converted to binary and sonified in a formal composition, while the sounds of Hindi ringtones, flowing water, coins and dozens of other submissions from round the world form the basis of 'Work Music'.

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Media:
10 standalone compositions for both PC and Mac platforms. 200MB. Time length and dimensions variable.

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Bringing the Outside In

A two-week project from Luke Munn and Johnny Chang at Ohrenhoch, the audio gallery, featuring installation and live performance.

A selection of field recordings from Los Angeles, London, Auckland, New York, Berlin, Italy, Hong Kong and Taiwan were presented in the main gallery space. As the recordings played, the room on Weichselstraße was sonically relocated to other spaces around the world.

Recordings of ambient sound taken from the neighbourhood around the gallery were transcribed - each tone noted and listed. These formed a trio of scores, which were performed in the gallery's cellar space with a multitude of small instruments and objects: a plastic bag, harmonica, bicycle bell, glass pieces, and others. Audience members were invited to bring along their own objects from the Outside: coins, keys, scraps of paper and other detritus that were activated acoustically as part of the performance.

Scores 1, 2 and 3 (PDF) 
Weichselstr (piece 1)

Gesture

Gesture is a loose system for scoring, composing, and reviewing action-driven pieces - works which focus on physical and repetitive movements with minimal instrumentation. Originally consisting of a video study, additional footage was shot and cutup, creating a small moving-image library of percussive hits, circular sweeps, and other hand gestures. Users can arrange and trigger these clips with a plain text system, creating dense staccato works or minimal arrangements just by typing. These microscores can then be shared and distributed via Twitter, Facebook, or other short message media.

Create, playback, and share your own gesture score by interacting above

100 Circles / 100 Tones

A social / performance project at Centre for Endless Progress, in collaboration with artist collective, Gruntwork.

100 Circles is a graphic score for multiple surfaces, performed on this occasion on concrete wall with chalk. Focusing on slowly shifting variations and physical gestures, the work leaves a visual trace of the transitory sound and movement that once created it.

100 Tones interacted with gallery visitor's, assigning each a number according to their entrance order. This number could be redeemed for a unique ring-tone from a set of 100. Each file was transferred to a willing visitor's mobile phone via Bluetooth at a station in the gallery, becoming the site of a range of successful and failed interactions both socially and technically.

View 100 Circles score (PDF)