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Explorations in art,Explorations music science, and technology Travelling 3 Time machine time time machine ruin alternate history neutrinos human time media archeology immune to time deep history mach 9 need for speed water clock sound of time time capsule chronocracy non-linear time shock waves historiography echo fossil fuels stealth time restoration pompeii time dilation image as time shock waves colonising time erosion sound of time timeless region what is Art else remains after everything destroyed is forgotten or – Jack Burnham (1974) Introduction 4 Travelling 5 Time

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to the the to of Time An Ode Ode An Experience Experience Table of Contents 6 Travelling 7 Time Specials Dyson George by Opening Lecture Sharits Paul Shutter by Interface Chora(s)san The + Hennix CC Time-Court Mirage Long String Instrument by Ellen Fullman Conference & Film Performances Live Exhibition Walk Publication & CD & Masterclass Information Practical Tickets & Public Transport Time Schedule Map Credits

07 08 10 12 14 15 31 47 52 54 55 56 58 62 63 Specials Opening Lecture 8 Travelling 9 Thursday 23 February Time

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and technology are pushed to their limits, and if if and limits, their to If the most radical ideas from physics, philosophy pushed are concept what technology ideas, and these by informed is music of time and timing in music do we arrive at? Pisaro Michael physical a posited Some Questions about the Existence of Time has exist. Barbour not Julian does it know Physicist we as will time talk which This in time? world without by music further think bit a we Can process this from carry to stemming work attempt recent some about thinking group. the Wandelweiser are compositions recent his of Many subsequent and composer. massing the with ‘homemade’ create concerned to sound of California the at spatialisation teaches Music Pisaro Experimental the environments. runs Arts, label, the of record own Institute his curates and Workshop, Gravity Wave. Waves, 2007 © Michael Pisaro from music, Keithelectronic Fullertonwith Whitman obsessed in origins performer incarnation mid-twentieth-century its worldwide towards contemporary working its through currently is He music. live for digital as system that complete a music electronic implementing improvised of performance incorporates elements from nearly every era.

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The The by Frans Evers, one of the the of one Evers, Frans by Colour Music Recollections Friday 24 February 18:30 De Balie ! 17:00 Recollections Colour Music Music Colour skar Fischinger harles Dockum Dockum harles A programme with films that relate in different different in relate that colour films of with practices programme A performance historical documentation to ways gorgeous the his includes on It Dockum music. Charles by recreation performance first a of the instrument, shows ‘Mobilcolor’ multi-projector the of Fischinger’s Oskar of documentation of screening rare a and the of Schwerdtfeger Kurt by Bauhaus. the recreation at 1968 experiments the of light first launch very the mark will programme This Science, in posthumous publication of the book Synesthetics Senses, the of Academy and Festival Acts Art and Education Sonic the The both Hague. of The in founders Interfaculty ArtScience the programme will be introduced by Joost Rekveld. Kurt Schwerdtfeger Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (1922/1968, 18’00, 16 mm colour) O Moritz, Bill by R-1, ein Formspielrecreation 1993 (1926–33/1993, 7’00, 35 mm cinemascope, B&W and colour) Yalkut Jud Turn, Turn, Turn (1966, 10’00, 16 mm colour) C 1969 Mobilcolor Projector film silent) (1969, 15’00, 16 mm colour, Hirsh Hy Come Closer (1953, 7’00, 16 mm, colour) Separate tickets for are available. Conference 22 Travelling 23 Saturday 25 February Time

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Joel Ryan Knowing When Joel Ryan Programming allows for a different approach approach different a for and allows Practical Programming composition. process, music in with time to composing of for aspects systems building theoretical image, and systems, sound such with generative live performing and music, will be thoroughly dissected in this panel. usually is music experience analytically, the at Yet looked When rules. of freedom system a of be one to is taken music involved making and judgments of listening of kind The to seem not spontaneity. does and rules an as applying and time making Taking in an be experience. to musical seems match there outside making, music quantity, of its epitome perceiving is, for fact The capacity innate thinking. analytic fast and too are language or of things when stiff know good, I is when: timing know I when when know I know I slow, happens too it or time Before of out was graceful. it if perfectly after and come, should beat a this music to listening or but Playing time. on reflection right or calculated in not happen comes time make to knowledge enough fast moment, the in without breaking the flow. of design the in pioneer a is He digital scientist. real-time on and based STEIM at instruments works musical currently He Ballet processing. Frankfurt signal the in with tours Sonology of Amsterdam, in Institute the than at rather teacher a is scientific and a from by Starting music into Hague. The moved he seeks Ryan education, musical a philosophy. via media physics from electronic degrees digital to performer. concreteness the of bring to touch intelligent the through Conference 24 Travelling 25 Saturday 25 February Time (2009) (2009) (IE) is a Professor in the English English the in Professor a is (IE) The Speed Handbook ffEnda Du y Stress High Energy: Soma, Techne, Enda Duffy

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German Baghdad Railway, 1900!10 17:45 ! 16:00 5 Session The Shock of of Shock The and Technology Histories of Time Time of Histories (UK) is the founding founding the is (UK) (2006). David EdgertonDavid The Shock of the Old David Edgerton Human perspectives on time have not always always not have time on Modernity of perspectives Human advent the first – Since same. the technologies been new of to come have introduction we the – and this electronic In later new’. ‘the and mechanical, myth innovation the speed, investigate celebrate and will stress, and researchers two speed of panel culture culture the of new, history the the of to approaches new explore and technology. the of mixing the of example wonderful instruments, a old is on Music music new – rehabilitation new the the and and old life long the vinyl to vice-versa, and instruments period of from – microcosm old a the of encapsulates science, of music This think we discs. when crude Yet to world. resort we human the modern, the the and supplants new technology, the and which old, in the than theories stage powerful more radically is old, technological renders the old merely of antiquarian interest. modern to the get and ways, understand to need ideological naively less in world grips with its materiality in richer ways. Science, of History the for Centre the of Manchester at director Medicine Rausing and Hans the Technology holds he where historians, leading University, Britain’s over of works One of Chair. number a published analyses has Edgerton conventional challenge which years 20 since History including Global of science and technology, and Technology Old, the 1900 Conference 26 Travelling 27 Sunday 26 February Time The Electric Electric The (US/SE) is a is (US/SE)

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was formed specifically to pay tribute to early early to tribute pay to specifically formed was Disco 3000 Lightspeed Paradiso 00:00 ! 05:00 experimental minimalist music. The enigmatic enigmatic The Eleh music. with minimalist music drone experimental spiritual using deeply end creates ultra-low Eleh battery physical a the on emphasis synthesiser, an analogue occasional and modular vintage a oscillators test .05 as tube low HP as glowing tones of musical a Incorporating as well as guitar/piano. physical a provides Eleh Hz. experience. performance with Carl Michael von Hausswolff working photography. artist and conceptual and installations sound (camera, and light- devices art, recording are ongoing an tools in main used His architectural sonar) radar, frequency, deck, tape electricity, of interference. investigation electronic intuitive paranormal pure, and are space works tone. sound and own frequency Hausswolff’s electricity, of studies a present Acts Sonic and 3000 Disco Paradiso’s forces driving the of night with techno godfather one was a Atkins techno, 1980s the Detroit In of today. development the ubiquitous behind still is influence whose sound He will perform live under his famous moniker and close the night with a DJ set.

CM von Hausswolff, 2011 © Frank Paul . Occupy Music (US) is a composer, performer performer composer, a is (US)

© Eleh and humanitarian. For five decades she has has she decades Paulinefive For Oliverosherself for humanitarian. ground and new breaking electronic sound, explored improvisation, has she Through others. meditation and and vision of teaching breadth ritual, such music, with work of experience body a who those created affects earlier and profoundly it Pieces that Listening idea the Deep Through introduced it. Oliveros into sounds Meditations Sonic environmental all accordion, an plays incorporating of Oliveros systems performance. different two musical to to re-tuned been electronics has uses which and intonation, explore and just her of accordion she the of space sound each the of alter characteristics individual the performs in. She will perform Live Performances & Film 40 Travelling 41 Saturday 25 February Time Fake Fish Fish Fake (ES) combines a thorough thorough a combines (ES)

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© Icarus musical of design the in Joel Ryan pioneer a is signal He digital scientist. real-time than on rather based scientific a instruments from by Starting music into processing. moved he Ryan education, philosophy. musical a through physics from degrees electronic digital to concreteness the of bring to touch seeks intelligent the through media performer. classical modern Agustí Fernàndez unique a twentieth-century of forge a to knowledge improvisation the free with with worked piano has He scene, style. powerful improvisation and free He the of world. the fathers over all founders from improvisers Electro-acoustic with and Parker Evan the of member a is Ensemble and of the Barry Guy New Orchestra. from music, Icarus electronic of and world the drum of through deconstructions sampler-based generative bass to generative and improvised software- using By smashing. genre based and parametric techniques their present sets Distribution improvised Their beat version. complex on unique a relying side, harsher volume. and much a soundscapes dense patterns,

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Keith Fullerton Whitman Joel Ryan with . He He music. electronic with by is dedicated to biological rhythms, rhythms, biological to dedicated is Natural Rhythms obsessed Agustí Fernàndez closes the evening with a brand new work. work. new brand a with evening the closes carus human speed, the cycles of stars and planets, planets, and stars Natural Time of cycles and the us, speed, around human creates nature on that impose sounds hands the human that time natural the in musical instruments. jazz free like sounds It composed Festival. performance Kontraste The the arcade. gaming electronic an Knowing When duo post-breakbeat pianist innovative The timing. second explorations I excursions: musical Breer, these Robert by Preceding films experimental in time of Norman McLaren and René Jodoin. Keith Fullerton Whitman implementing performer towards of working currently performance is live for system incorporates that complete a music electronic improvised elements from nearly every era. Live Performances & Film 42 Travelling 43 Saturday 25 February Time (UK) promoted promoted (UK) René Jodoin René Filmmaker

Blazes, 1961, Robert Breer power the expose to designed the is words, illustrate to without and medium, cinematic the of abstract nature of time. an with animation, to approach innovation artisanal an experimentation, began on he 1969, emphasis as early As education. and experimenting with computer-assisted animation. The films are screened from 21:00 to 21:20.

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Rectangle and Rectangles, 1984, René Jodoin © NFB over positions switching Painter, images basic explosion. 100 and continuous One sculptures frames. 4000 kinetic of creator filmmaker, mutoscopes, for his experimental animation. and rectangles bars, stripes, been coloured has Vibrantly soundtrack so film synthetic the The of track squares. image the in incorporated that what we see is hear. and animation of areas of number a animation, in film pioneer drawn-on and including pixilation filmmaking, film, abstract music, visual graphical sound. programmed Jodoin disguise. in film complex highly didactic a A light, co-ordinate of to beam computer a electronic an film, involving animation This operation camera. a and filters colour Live Performances 44 Travelling 45 Sunday 26 February Time States of of States (2006) and is a Berlin-based concert series series concert Berlin-based a is (UK), tuba player and composer, composer, and player tuba (UK),

Valve Division (2009), along with various collaborative collaborative various with along (2009), releases. Active in many contemporary Rushing contemporary many in Active and Phosphor releases. including 2005 in ensembles Berlin, music Musik Neue continued for Kammerensemble Works Copper & Zinc founded he research into brass instruments. Gakudan. After returning to the guitar he changed changed he guitar the to sound, returning quiet After extremely Gakudan. an to Sugimoto loud a from Currently, style his silence. for room performance, leaves its and which composition on focusing is rather than on improvisation. Robin Hayward playing ‘noise’ tuba © Miroe Koen and Chang KonzertJohnny Minimalby complete started the ensemble and performing of aim the with compositions Nutters 20 to instrumentation open of performer solo series from the from Beuger, musicians Antoine by one by One to invited were instrumentalists. community music listening between experimental boundary the harmonies explore tones, and join silence, music through play to perception plans and also Michael ensemble The space. Werder, and Manfred as such composers by Pisaro and Radu Malfatti. the in both Hayward Robin potential tuba’s compositions the His redefined has microtonality. and noise of similar a areas reflect Alvin instruments other approach. for for pieces medium-specific written have experimental, Wolff on Christian documented and is Lucier tuba the to approach His him. the solo CDs

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(KR) is a classically trained trained classically a is (KR) Michael Thieke Johnny Chang Hayward Robin Chris Heenan Okkyung Lee Koen Nutters Morten J. Olsen Valerio Tricoli relationship between self, sound and instruments instruments and sound self, between relationship using tape, synthesizers and microphones. collective forms, song experimental on focuses composing, and improvisation. explores the relationships of sound/silence and and sound/silence of relationships the composition, explores improvisation, between areas the performance and listening. composer. using clarinet, contrabass the reveal with to particularly multiphonics and techniques extended the subtleties inherent to instrument. by technique her extended has traditional who jazz, cellist from elements incorporating Korean music and noise.also He Collective. N the of for member series founding concert a Amsterdam, DNK organises new live electronic and acoustic music. of array an with worked has He percussion. international figures and bands. was released in in released was box and electronics. shruti is a quartet from Berlin Berlin from quartet a is (AR) plays bass clarinet, clarinet, bass plays (AR)

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rchestra Transposition Zero O he Pitch Extended / Extended Pitch he T Musicians for Konzert Minimal Minimal Konzert for Musicians and Frozen Lucio Capece Exhibition consisting of Michael Thieke (clarinet), Boris Boris (clarinet), The Pitch Extended Thieke Michael tones), of sine consisting organ, pump Olsen J. (electric Morten and Baltschun bass), (double Nutters improvisation Koen with work They shapes, specific (vibraphone). within Their device music. of generative a piece as a for ideas and structures their into musicians debut album guest invite ‘Frozen often The They 2010. structures. Lucio and includes language – musical Extended Pitch The (contrabass – Heenan Orchestra’ Chris Lee clarinet), Okkyung (bass Capece (viola), Chang Johnny plays – (tuba) clarinet), on Hayward focus Robin pieces and These (cello) Surfaces. constellations Frozen set pitch so-called textures, Valerio changing instruments. slowly of layer blending extra an subtle adds the and electronics) (analogue Tricoli of electronically re-worked sound. musician, computer a Boris Baltschun as internationally recorded pianist and organist. soprano saxophone, Exhibition 48 Travelling 49 23 February–15 April Time focuses on on focuses (FR) is a new media artist who who artist media new a is (FR) ao G. Vrhovec aoSambolec G. Vrhovec Julien Maire Flip Dots Mirrors (2011, installation) Julien Maire Speeds T Body – Sonic Velocities by City commissioned work, new (2012, Acts, NIMk & STEIM)

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19:00 NIMk* 19:00 ! 11:00 resists resists Travelling Time (UK) is a multidisciplinary multidisciplinary a is (UK) Perpendiculair Cinema ’s The exhibition officially opens on Thursday Thursday on opens officially exhibition The Joe Gilmore -9.93450215762280319787e-1 (2012, installation) Joe Gilmore Julien Maire Perpendicular Cinema(2011, installation) The exhibition at NIMk presents several several presents NIMk at explore that works exhibition The film and halt sound seemingly They installations, time. city, of the in modalities speed with different deal time, cinema, of classic of experience the montage action sequential because the resist suspension in visitor pensive, the leave Immersive, or these deferred. all continuously is overwhelming, or precise scientifically works tickle the brain and senses. at 16:30 in presence of the artists. 23 February Gilmore Joe by piece sound generative new complexity The and geometry space, multi-speaker explores The synthesis. sound through short from ranges installation uses chaotic algorithms, and flocking/ sound The different in synthesis. space the swarm around and tones scattered complex impulses extended to configurations, chaotic noise signals. fields the in working designer art. graphic and algorithmic artist and video labels music, various on computer of published Line. been and has Fällt music His Entr'acte, Cut, digital Alku, numerous at including exhibited been has work His art festivals and galleries. complex A Julien Maire montage. the reflective of of blocks directivity of the made clear the interface, models and mechanical slow controls The slide. intercepts, metal, of projected a of attention areas blurry assiduous and the to similar is scanning Exhibition 50 Travelling 51 23 February–15 April Time promotes promotes works in the field field the in works

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Slide sequence Liquid Crystal Display, 2008!9 Juliana Borinski Mark Fell Factoid #3 (2011, installation) © Juliana Borinski

20 minutes to a few hours (depending on the the on (depending hours and few a to temperature the minutes 20 and is slide concentration Each space). solution’s exhibition the in humidity replaced after the ‘image’ has stabilised. installations, and videography between photography, of conjunction the with often works Her experimenting or iconoclasm. and materials iconography technologies, new media basic historical integrate referencing while machines techniques or scientific experiments. between linkage the investigated structure has the and Philosophy into consciousness of sound taken structure not the has it but to present, contribute the of sound does temporal How repetitive the consideration. of Thinking tones linkage? prolonged this the or techno, of relationships structures primary some – could music sound Tibetan and of in consciousness time, studies between recent by and Informed intense Fell’s imagined. be time, of psychopathology the self the time, between confrontational installation association flow, on emphasis destabilised a Phenomenological sound. and Factoid #3, 2011 © Mark Fell

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