Friday nov. 25th, Obernkarbi will as a part of the fabulous Ren Optur ensemble, perform a double info-noise act at Overgaden, institute for contemporary art at their 25th anniversary. We will accompany NASAs Juno spacelaunch from this summer.
Featuring this performance will be:
1. A huuuuge sound system for maximum niceness of accompanying the Juno-spacelaunch.
2. An ensemble of some of the finest experimental musicians, and sound performers in Copenhagen
3. A whole newly edited and very exciting video-partiture.
November 19th, our true and pure circuit bending orchestra – CEO – goes on a mission to spread the wonders of destroying toys for creative purpose(s).
We’re invited to participate in a debate on music and art as pleaser/provocer and especially: to give our saying in a 1:1 perspective with a concert. The venue is a cinema with a majestic surround sound system, and we’re invited to misuse it for mutual benefits
If you’re in the vecinity, please don’t hesitate to come by. Free entry!
Playful immediatism and physical simultaneity merged with radical methods of interventionism. This is a documentation from a workshop on tactile-acoustic interventionism, where the participants investigate and experiment with resonant properties of objects and structures in public space.
After a phase of experimenting, the participants go into setting up temporary sound installations, where selected objects are transformed into acoustic sources and sounding units. Thus the end results of the workshop is a ‘hidden’ soundinstallation where the existing objects and structures in public space are converted into “instruments” and “speakers”.
The underlying mission is to emphazise the positive aspects of using sound as prime medium of acquirement and perceptionally challenge a visually dominated and over-crowded public and communicative space.
My tech-setup is a special developed sound system, optimized to mobilty and quick independent interventions. Some challenge since sound installation art can be some of the most gear-heavy stuff
The workshop/installation project Rainforest has been approved by the FullPull festival to be part of their festival-event, september 2011 in Malmø.
Derek Holzer and I will hold a weeklong workshop with 8 participants, where we’ll build up an experimental feed-back chaos-generating installation sound-system out of old metal-trash.
See video and more stuff here, from the last Rainforest project we did in Berlin at the Club Transmediale festival.
As part of the monthly open jam-session, Global Units, a special lineup was made with the Ren Optur ensemble, our space launch orchestra performing improv events for space launches.
It was a nice performance, not least because we had a professional and dedicated pair of sound technicians, that managed to get a nice live-sound out of 8 performers with each their own weird mikro-cosm + a good master recording with tons of possibilities for after editing and producing nice documentary material.
You can listen to a short excerpt at Ren Opturs homepage, as well as dig into more material, upcoming events etc. For a full version of the concert, as well as a video + other interesting free impro stuff from the same evening, see the Global Units page, look for session #5.
If you feel like, please support the Global Units cause by donating in return for downloading their recordings. They do an amazing non-commercial event and it would be really nice to have more of this kind.
This years Suset festival had invited CEO to do our workshop/concert package.
Nice setting in the midst of far out countryside and we had a nice workshopping day + a great concert involving guest star Derek Holzer on speaker box.
You can listen to the concert at our homepage here
During the last couple of years, I’ve become a fanatic sailor, so of course I’d eventually have to integrate the two worlds of sailing and doing sound installations.
What to do then? Packed the boat with enormous loads of batteries, transducers, soundcards, wires, soldering iron, etc., took two friends with me and set sails for the island Sejerø (app. 100 nautic miles from Copenhagen) where a small but really nice underground festival took place.
We arrived at the Sejerø Festival two days later, anchored in a small bay and swam ashore to invade the island and the festival. The weather proved a bit of a challenge since you need somewhat stable winds and a decent shore to anchor up the boat, but everything succeeded for a proto-test of the concept.
The concept is to use a live signal stream from the sounds produced by the boat to process into a supernatural soundscape coming from a multichannel speaker system that lies on the bottom on the sea. Everything battery driven and run from the off-limits sound-lab belly of my boat of course
At sunday morning app. 05 a.m. when the general festival party had ended, I took a dozen party-drunken and open minded festival audiences down to the coast, we swam to our boat and supplied people with diving equipment, wetsuit, floating devices etc.
It was a mindblowing experience and the session went on for an hour before the winds got too heavy and we had to pack up to sail to a safe harbour.
More of this will definitely continue when winter has passed.
This workshop I held as part of the festival Tuned City in Tallin, European Cultural Capital 2011.
By cooperating in a small group of workshop participants, a series excercises with sound installations were produced through investigating, experimenting, learning and performing with the acoustic possibilities of a city.
The method I’ve developed is basically to experiment with what I call the Tactile-Acoustic Interventionist approach. This meaning, to use the physical and tactile aspects of acoustics to adapt the everyday objects and structures in our urban surroundings. A bit like street art but with the absolute nerdish approach of sound art
From day to day, different sites of interest in Tallin were located and intervened with by testing the acoustic nature and adding acoustic energy in the objects and structures.
To perform this workshop I’ve developed a special Tactile Acoustic Interventionist System, that relies on principles of transduction, ie. the converting of energy from one form to another. The system uses transduction to set in vibration any objects or structures of choice in order to make sounding units. At the core of this system are certain speaker driver units called audio transducers. Their function can be described as a speaker magnet seperated from it’s cone and cabinet, and specially designed to flexible attachment and optimal transferring of vibrational energy to any given material attached upon. This technology is being used in as vast areas as crash-testing bridge-constructions, sonar, guitar pickups and of course home theaters and butt-kickers.
It might seem technically complicated (some of it is) but I made sure that to participate in the workshop only a low entry level on the tech-factor was demanded. Hence, none of the participants had worked with sound-installations before. And as a finishing result, the workshop developed to do a final, really nice, and well disguised interactive installation at a public playground in downtown Tallin.
The workshop results were presented to a general audience, who could also try the system by own hands. Also, we did a small performance where workshop participants together with the audience played on the installation using a laptop-soundcard interface and various found objects, i.e. trash from public space.
Documentation video coming very soon right here on the internet
As part of the Your Space area, Obernkarbi and Anders Børup were invited to do a series of workshops in Circuit Bending.
Circuit Bending is somewhat like the art of hacking and breaking circuits in battery driven toy-instruments and other sound-giving toys in order to (un)obtain controlled bit-chaotic sound collages, variations of “Old McDonald” in §-minor etc.
The workshops were held as open sessions so everybody could come by and have a try in the world of circuit bending.
At the end of the day, each session ended up with a concert were all participants were invited to join in and give a blast with their newly bended noice-makers.
The workshops were held sunday june 26th and friday 1st of july from 12-20 hrs.
Anders Børup and Obernkarbi are part of a rare species among orchestras: The true and pure Circuit Bending band “CEO: Bend-o-Rama”, that does Circuit Bending concerts and workshops (among others at Roskilde Festival 2010).
