Volksamt! Klang Manufaktur / VLKSFST Orkest

Tele-present performance; spatial audio, 2ch video.
NIGHTLINE, Samstag Nacht, 6. Sept, 02:00

Installation on the Net. Source Engine Dedicated Server.
And part of exhibition: open throughout, STWST upstairs

Volksamt Klang Manufaktur continues their series of re-enactments of significant 20th century compositions with a reimagining of Arseny Avraamov’s seminal industrial music piece Symphony of Sirens (1922) as a Garry’s Mod server.

Presented under this year’s theme FOG MANIFESTO, the work reflects on the “fog of war” both literally and metaphorically. Avraamov’s Symphony was chosen as the conceptual ursprung because of its connection to fog of war in a literal sense; every performance of the piece had ended in disaster; in Baku, the artillery was shot to soon, covering the ground with so much smoke that documenting the piece was not possible, in Moscow it was played in such a large area that the artillery smoke made it impossible for the performers to see each other. Staying true to the symphony’s open but site-specific format, this re-enactment moves the composition to a video game server. An orchestra of bots fire an amount of bullets that Avraamov could only dream of, inline with the military excess plaguing the world.

After the performance the server will be available publicly: tba.

Volksamt Kultur Manufaktur is studio for intermedia art based in Netherlands. What Volksamt! does is artistic organization; be it organizing sound into composition, objects into bricolage or people into an entity. While Volksamt! develops a wide variety of work such installations, performances, and digital media, its output is always firmly rooted in the realm of sonic arts.

VLKSFST Orkest is an off-shoot of Volksamt! Kultur Manufaktur; focusing on re-enactments, and performances of original compositions. It is an ever changing cast of brilliant performers.

At STWST VLKSFST Orkest is:
Gokay Atabek – www.volksamt.org
Fai Hathaway - https://www.instagram.com/faeriefai/

This project would not be possible without Falco Peijnenburg’s (https://github.com/FPtje) MIDI plug-in for Garys Mod and most importantly artist/bandmate/friend Berk Ozdemir’s (https://www.berkozdemir.com/) research/thesis/open source project PPPB.