Willkommen - Welcome : Atelier Algorythmics & homepage of Winfried Ritsch
... which is part of "Atelier Leitnergasse", which is member of mur.at, which is located at Graz, the hated and beloved city I live in.
!!! - Design in Re Work - content till 2014 - to be filled !!!
Mission
The studio "Atelier Algorythmics" dedicated to the design and implementation of media art installation, especially automated sculptures, music and computer networking projects within and outside the Internet. This includes art direction, consulting, programming, construction, implementation and management for cultural institutions and artists.
Das Atelier Algorythmics widmet sich der Entwurf und Realisation von Medienkunstinstallation, speziell automatisierte Skulpturen, Computermusik und Netzwerkprojekten im und ausserhalb des Internets. Das beinhaltet künstlerische Leitung, Beratung, Programmierung, Bau, Realisation und Abwicklung für Kulturinstitutionen und Künstler.
short mission: electrifice, algofice and musicifice
Woodscratcher live at "EXPOZICE NOVÉ HUDBY" in Brno
The woodscratcher has performed live at the Klub Fléda in Brno, Czechia on the 6.3.2010. As an extension, the sound of the woodscratcher has been picked up by a computer and an algorithmic piece was performed out of the memory of the computermusic-machine using mutation and aging algorithms.
Woodscratcher Vinyl Bildplatte / Picture Disc released
12.12.2012: As a vinyl production the woodscratche picture disc was released // Woodscratcher als Vinyl Bild-Schallplatte herausgegeben.
New Algo Portal started, ..
...looking like the old one but with fewer, but newer content and will be filled soon.
ICE - Ensemble first public concert
The IEM Computermusic Ensemble is playing an Ambisonics sound systems with gestural controllers. First public concert has been at porgy and bess vienna on 9.9.2011, playing "fields", a series of composition dealing with field recordings.
Old Statement Foto superceded by new Portal entry ....
... since a more secure rewrite rule, the old statement page of algo.mur.at has to disappear at startup, but is saved as snapshot here imageCaption: Old Statement page of http://algo.mur.at/
Heptapiano / Winfried Ritsch
Announcement for the piece and dokumentation links
Heptapiano - piano space for 7 automatic piano players
At the Ars Electronica Festival 2011, in the freeroom of lentos, seven automatic piano players of the serie Rhea has been arranged in an 20m diameter circle and played like an ambisonics spatial piano space. The commissioned work by the ars electronica center Linz has used as a base the 32th trope of Josef Matthias Hauer "Und die Wellen umspielen uns" for self replicant mutation algorythms embedded in noise waves of piano tones.
"Deus Cantando" at the ars electronica center linz
The installation of the piece "Deus Cantando" from Peter Ablinger, Thomas Musil and Winfried Ritsch is shown at the new exhibition „What Machines Dream Of“ in the second floor for the next year.
"Maschinenhalle #1" - "Machine shop #1" Development started
The opening performance on the styrian autumn 2010 will be done by 12 Autopianoplayers "Rhea". The piece is developed as collective with Christine Gaigg / Philipp Harnoncourt / Bernhard Lang / Winfried Ritsch (A)
Maschinenhalle #1 at Styrian Autumn festival 2010
A limited space in which machines make up their own world, that we can observe and analyse, but not influence; whose systems we hear, see and feel, but do not understand. A world to which we are exposed.