Part of FOGGING AROUND NIGHTLINE

unstable systems, high intensity light, phantom-presence, feedback

NIGHTLINE, Samstag Nacht, 6. Sept, 01:30, STWST Saal

drift is an open live-generated audio intervention for an audio modulated light system. Paul Gründorfer and Jonas Hammerer both work with feedback systems, self-modulating signal networks, and spatial interventions. Their set doesn't follow a fixed structure but is shaped through situational navigation by listening, adjusting, and reacting to what emerges.

For this encounter they will use ILA an audio controlled LED system which Paul Gründorfer developed to research high intensity light frequencies, and the idea of phantom presence in space. Following fast-evolving processes, actions, and movements, an accumulation of inputs generates an immersive, abstract experience of the presence of sound and light. 

Strong modulation creates a visual fog. Perception becomes unstable. The room loses its shape. Both performers and audience become part of a shared space where sound, light, and perception blend together. The focus lies on the sculptural and direct quality of real-time sound with the unstable dynamics of digital feedback systems in a process of navigating uncertainty.

Jonas Hammerer is a Vienna-based musician and sound artist working with synthetic, process-oriented systems in live performance and sound installations. His work deals with instability, emergence and the materiality of sound and listening. He studied electroacoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he is currently a research associate at the Artistic Research Center. He is also studying at the Tangible Music Lab (University of Arts Linz) and the Institute for Machine Learning at JKU Linz. https://www.hammererer.net/

Paul Gründorfer develops process-related systems and explores variable or unstable conditions within the occurrence of sound when exposed to amplification, feedback and plural signal streams. His works focus on processes that evolve in a social space, where sound is considered a found object and event, that directly relates to, influences and reflects the environment. They are dealing with the instability of systems, questioning the role of control and reaction, and researching mechanisms of hidden signals. www.tricx.net