On the 16th of February 2010 I will exhibit my new interactive-media-installation called “Hopelash” at the Appartement, Berlin.
Address:
Appartement, Berlin
Prenzlauer Allee 242
When:
16/01/2010 - 8:30 pm
More info about the work: Video Excerpt & Info-Material - english version
I just started working on the sound and music for Reynold Reynolds last part of the “Perception Trilogy”.
This piece will be a five-channel video installation exhibited in France in early March. Watch out for more details soon.
For more info about Reynold Reynolds:
www.reynold-reynolds.com
AMBINATOR is a new kind of ambient sound generator. It produces continually evolving soundscapes.
I did the Sound Direction and Design for this application. AMBINATOR is an iPhone App and available from the App Store starting on January 20th, 2010. Use it for meditation, relaxation, or for just masking out unwanted sounds around you.
For more info:
www.ambinator.com
“The Number Stations” compilation project has been released through the established PublicSpaces Lab netlabel.
I composed a track for this compilation called “Obfuzzcation”. Its my very own interpretation of the so called numbers station phenomenon. You can download the entire album in MP3 and Flac format. The Numbers Stations is freely available under Creative Commons license.
Have a listen here:
www.lab.pubspaces.com
Dazz & Ultramoodem // Live DJ/VJ MashUp Performance
On the 18th of November I was invited to the 10th anniversary of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute Potsdam to create a unique A/V MashUp Performance together with Moo from Ultramoodem.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS announced the release of a new software instrument called SCARBEE PRE-BASS Amped.
This is the first release in a partnership between NI and Thomas Hansen Skarbye. I did some demo music productions for their website. For more information go to the new Scarbee Pre-Bass site and check out the details, demos, video tutorials and interviews!
The new semester starts and I am again responsible for the “Sound Communication and Design” course at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin…..great!
For more information about the University please visit: www.btk-fh.de
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS announced the upcoming major update of their award-winning semi-modular synthesizer ABSYNTH.
I was one of the sound designers and I also did some demo music productions for their website. For more information go to the new ABSYNTH 5 site and check out the details, demos, video tutorials and interviews!
The permanent Installation “Vertical Wire Music” is still alive.
“Vertical Wire Music”
Reinterpretation of Alvin Luciers “Music On A Long Thin Wire”
by Martin Backes, Heidrun Schramm, Christoph Illing
Please note:
It`s a permanent installation! Which means you can visit this exhibition at anytime.
Address:
University of Arts Berlin
Lietzenburger Straße 45, spiral staircase
10789 Berlin
I exhibited a new site specific sound installation for public space called “Irklang” at the Artsummer Schwaben 09, Kloster Irsee, Germany
Opening: 8th August 2009, 5 pm
More info: www.kunstsommer.info
Made possible by grants from: Schwabenakademie Irsee and University of Augsburg
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