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Regnskov in Århus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 14th there’s an opening concert for the 4th Rainforest installation workshop that Derek Holzer and I’ve done together. This time we have 6 local participants and it is the first time it is set up in public space. We’re collaborating with and are supported by Kulturforvaltningen, Århus Kommune and www.byiby.dk. In Århus we’re situated amidst a very interesting ongoing temporary urban space experiment right in the center of Århus. (see below for location)

The opening starts at 17 hrs with a concert and saturday and sunday between 12-17 the Rainforest will run as an ongoing performance installation. Free entry and everybody is invited to come and have a go with (amongst other stuff) our 3 meter long scrapmetal urinal.

See more on previous Rainforest in Berlin here.

Also, listen to an interview from SNYK radio from our recently ended Rainforest project at this link

 

Obernkarbi
September 11, 2012
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Sonic interventionism @ Roskilde festival

Thursday, july 5th, at 17hrs, Obernkarbi will perform a special sonic intervention for the Rill-bar @ Roskilde festivals Sonic Zone by the pavillion junior stage.

Obernkarbi, has prepared the area by mic’ing up hidden places of acoustic interest, and will be using the live inputs to create a lively, meditative and interactive soundscape. The concert will be held in a special headphone system providede by the Rillbar.

See more on sonic interventionisms and other performance installations here and further on.

Obernkarbi
June 29, 2012
Featured, Installation, On Stage
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SOUNDBUS

The SOUNDBUS is a soundinstallation and performance developed for the festival ACTS 2012 in Roskilde, Denmark.

In a bus, I’ve installed contact microphones connected to a multichannel soundsystem to be operated in a MAX/MSP and Reaper controlled environment. I’ll be playing by the sounds coming from the bus, as it drives through the landscape with passengers sitting inside.

The result can be compared to some sort of windchime-like setup, organically developing and gradually changing as I try to play along the sounds coming from the bus journeying through the landscape.

The idea is a derivate from my other ongoing works with enhancement and manipulation of sound, as in my Tactile Acoustic workshop, and underwater soundsystem.

See more at the ACTS festival homepage

 

 

 

Obernkarbi
June 1, 2012
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CEO-Bendorama in live TV

“Our next step must be the national television”, John proclaimed as we’d finished our session in november 2011 with the danish radio channel 24/7.

As predicted, half a year later we find ourselves invited to do a performance and interview to the national childrens channel DR Ramasjang, as part of their friday afternoon live show.

Theme of the day in Ramasjang is “naughty friday”, and what a perfect setting for a group of circuit disturbing/-ed soundnerds to unfold their talents.

See the show here

Go to our homepage www.ceo-bendorama.dk for more info.

 

Obernkarbi
May 20, 2012
Featured, On Stage, Talks
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Space Launch ensemble at Overgaden

 

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.

Check out more at Ren Opturs homepage

and at Overgadens homepage

Obernkarbi
November 25, 2011
Featured, On Stage
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Tuning the City – Workshop in Tallin 2011

 

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.

The workshop were held in july 2011 as part of the exciting festival TUNED CITY that took place in Tallin, Estonia as part of the European Capital of Culture 2011.

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 :)

Obernkarbi
November 7, 2011
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Circuit-bending workshop @ Roskilde festival 2011

Circuit Bending workshop @ Roskilde festival 2011 from Obernkarbi on Vimeo.

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).

See more material from “CEO: Bend-o-Rama” here.

Obernkarbi
June 19, 2011
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DJ for Film-Awards afterparty

The annual HUGO AWARDS celebrating the makings by students of film and mediascience at the university of Copenhagen has invited DJ Obernkarbi to set the ‘stimmung’ for their famous afterparty.

Hoorray!!:)

Check out HUGO awards at this link

Obernkarbi
May 16, 2011
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Regenwald 2011

 

Regenwald 2011 from Obernkarbi on Vimeo.

This project was done in collaboration with Derek Holzer, my friend and berlin-based sound-artist.

It was based on the ideas of the great performer and composer David Tudor, and his series of compositions entitled “Rainforest”. Together with a selected group of workshop participants – 7 musicians and sound-artists  from around Europe – we build and performed with a system that could both send and recieve audio-signals through scrap-metal objects in an 8×8 matrix mixer setup.

Instantly composed and backfeeding soundscapes was injected into carefully prepared metalobjects found at the local scrapyard & well-hung at the lounge-space of West Germany. My dearest, vintage Rolen-Star transducers was of course a central part of the system and they felt as they’d returned to a previous life, since the original Tudor-Rainforest pieces was powered by the same Rolen-Star models.

After 4 days of building and getting to know this mysterious thing we’d created, the installation was open to the general public/guests of Club Transmediale for the rest of the festival.

See more pictures here

See online magazine Vague Terrain #19 curated by Derek Holzer on Schematics as Score, exploring some of the underlying considerations behind Regenwald.

Obernkarbi
February 6, 2011
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CEO plays at Roskilde festival 2010

Museum for contemporary art in Roskilde invited CEO bendorama to enrich the festival with true and pure circuitbended music at their event stage on wednesday 30th june.

As we did earlier at the Urban Explosion festival, the concert started by us walking around with a wheel-barrel sound system at the camping area, engaging people to participate in the fun of circuit bending.

Here’s a video excerpt of our performance (coming soon)

Obernkarbi
June 30, 2010
Featured, On Stage
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