Klanggang / Soundwalk

Two iconic streets from Auckland and Berlin are sonified and mapped in this web-based project, allowing users to explore the echoes and architecture of two spaces at once.

Karangahape Road in New Zealand is a buzzing blend of pacifica and partygoers, drag-queens and boy racers, while the snow and concrete of Kottbusser Damm is punctuated by snippets of conversation, U-Bahn announcements, and Turkish markets.

The interface allows users to 'walk' alongside or skip through these moments. Users can also mix the networked spaces together - isolating or blending them. A personal, celebratory response to 'immobility' by Luke Munn and Sam Hamilton, commissioned and made possible by ElectroSmog Festival.

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PAKET (2009-2010)

PAKET is an audiovisual album - a compilation of 10 pieces which explore sound, imagery, behaviour and composition.

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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)