andré könig: zeitgeber

artist-in-residence & performance 01.08. – 28.08.2009

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“We have assigned clever pseudonyms to prevent recognition. Why have we kept our own names? Out of habit, purely out of habit. To make ourselves unrecognizable in turn.” Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari

Andreas Kaiser, *1978 in Goettingen (DS), lives in San Sebastian (ES)
In his interactive multimedia installations, ambient soundscapes and videos, A.K. invites the public to participate actively in the creative process of composing music and developping visual work. His soundsculptures can be linked to a context of ambient noise. They combine the meditational aspect of ambient linked to overtone music with the irritational, critical attitude of noise. Projects: ambientsoundtrack and concert for Pablo Donezar, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea San Sebastian (ES) 2009; le toille multimedia installation, Getxoarte Bilbao (Es) 2008; At.tension Theaterfestival-Kulturkosmos, Flugplatz Laerz (DE) 2006; compositions for Iphigenie Koenigskind, Rostock/Greifswald/Dresden (DE) 2005; radio programmes: 2008 radio ttan ttakun San Sebastian (ES); 2007 radio patapoe Amsterdam (NL); 2005-2006 radio lohro Rostock (DE)

A.K.’s soundscuplture is an environment of permanent interactive experimentation including movement, sound and visuals. A detector reacts to the movements of the visitor and to the movements of the passenger outside. The movement detector sends impulses to a small, robot-like machine at a piano. The piano seems to play by itself, without musician, ghostlike. The communication in this system is based on sensors and opensource software for movement detection. The local network can deliver the system with the visitor’s movement information and send impulses. The movement of the public results in an always different sound. With the small mechanical objects sound becomes sculptural, contemplative and pulsating. The work is open: the visitor can participate by intuition, transforming movement into sound. The system can be used as a creative playground, as a tool: the result is an orchestra without musicians, music without composer, no center, no hierarchies. The space becomes a stage for a complex network of interactions: nothing in the space can escape the system – and the system can only come to live with everybody participating, things depend on each other – no sound without visitor.