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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.

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.

Maschinenhalle #1 performance at semperdepot vienna november 2011

Another performance of Maschinenhalle #1, which has been developed as collective with Christine Gaigg / Philipp Harnoncourt / Bernhard Lang / Winfried Ritsch (A) took place at Semperdepot in Vienna within the festival "wien modern" 2011 and the FEEDBACK festival and Symposium of Tanzquartier vienna on 18.11.2011 and 19.11.2011

"I am playing in one netroom" performance at NetPlay

During the Netplay festival at IEM Graz, Sarc Belfast and HFMT Hamburg this piece was perfamed as an installation over network in the 3 cities. As a homage to Alvins Luciers "I am sitting in an room" the performance was an pioneer act for fully autonom performance for robotics Autoklavierspieler series "rheas"

ex machina dei

Konzert für große Räume (wie Kirchen), robotisch gespielte mechanische Orgel, robotisch gespielter Flügel und Sinustöne über Tetraederlautsprecher - Concert for big rooms (e.g. Churches), robotic organ-player for mechanic organ, robotic piano-player for grand pianos, sinus-tones via tetrahedral-speaker. / "Ex Machina Dei" was commissioned by the Musikprotokoll 2013 Graz and performed first in the St.Andrae Church Graz.

Klangboxen augarten dezember 2010

Six Klangboxen has been installed in the Augarten for the installation desde aqui "puro chagüite" mit Rhizom, und Consuelo Mora Benard und Roberto Guillen from 15. - 27.12.2010, come and here

Zerteilte Texte - Konzept

Komposition/Performance "Zerteilte Texte" für 4 verteilte Schauspieler, Netzwerk, Computer und Lautsprecher - Ein Beitrag für John Cage's 100sten Geburstag als Auftragsarbeit für Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten in Graz.

Overview

Concept of an cybernetic sound installation with bell player: "Power Flower Network" as artwork in the series of "social machines" and "robotic art" for autonomous systems done by Winfried Ritsch at `Atelier Algorythmics`

Auditory Virtual Environment (AVE) for the sound-dome

Ambisonics has been selected as technology for the Implementation of the AVE needed for the "small worlds" (Kleine Welten) sound installation in the dome in Pischelsdorf (KULM). Some information about AVE and Ambisonics is collected here for a further understanding.

escher and escherFET as CC by NC-SA released

New generation of Algorythmics microcontroller boards using a microchip dsPIC motor control chip (or other) with an 10MBit Ethernet Interface. With its 72 I/O Pins, 16 PWMs, 16 ADCs and several other interfaces it is used for faster and robust robotic application like the Autoklavierspieler.

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.

Gesang der Orgel für Raumorgel als Konzertinstallation und mit Sängerin als Performances im Reaktor Wien

Die Raumorgel, eine Dekonstruktion einer Kirchenorgel: vernetzte Orgelpfeifen verteilt über drei hallige Räume im Reaktor Wien, werden in einer Konzertinstallation und mit Performances mit einer Sängerin gespielt. - The space organ, a deconstruction of a church organ: networked organ pipes distributed over three reverberant rooms in Reaktor Vienna, will be played in a concert installation and within performances with singer. "The Song of the organ"