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Ambiant Creativity Mo Fr Workshop Concerts Lectures Discussions workshop concerts lectures discussions ambiant creativity »digital composition« March 14-18 2011 mo fr jérôme bertholon sebastian berweck ludger brümmer claude cadoz omer chatziserif johannes kreidler damian marhulets thomas a. troge iannis zannos // program thursday, march 17th digital creativity 6 pm, Lecture // Caught in the Middle: The Interpreter in the Digital Age and Sebastian Berweck contemporary ZKM_Vortragssaal music 6.45 pm, IMA | lab // National Styles in Electro- acoustic Music? thomas a. troged- Stipends of “Ambiant Creativity” and Sebastian fdfd Berweck ZKM_Vortragssaal 8 pm, Concert // Interactive Creativity with Sebastian Berweck (Pianist, Performer), works by Ludger Brümmer, Johannes Kreidler, Enno Poppe, Terry Riley, Giacinto Scelsi ZKM_Kubus friday, march 18th 6 pm, Lecture // New Technologies and Musical Creations Johannes Kreidler ZKM_Vortragsaal 6.45 pm, Round Table // What to Expect? Hopes and Problems of Technological Driven Art Ludger Brümmer, Claude Cadoz, Johannes Kreidler, Thomas A. Troge, Iannis Zannos ZKM_Vortragssaal 8 pm, Concert // Spatial Creativity, works by Jérôme Bertholon, Ludger Brümmer, Claude Cadoz, Omer Chatziserif, Damian Marhulets, Iannis Zannos ZKM_Kubus 10pm, Night Concert // Audiovisual Creativity with audiovisual compositions and dj- sets by dj deepthought and Damian Marhulets ZKM_Musikbalkon // the project “ambiant creativity” The “Ambiant Creativity” project aims to promote the potential of interdisciplinary coopera- tion in the arts with modern technology, and its relevance at the European Level. The results and events are opened to the general public. The project is a European Project funded with support from the European Commission under the Culture Program. It started on October, 2009 for a duration of two years. The partnership groups ACROE in France, ZKM | Karlsruhe in Germany and the Ionian University in Greece. The main activities are the support and realization of three artworks by three young artists, the organisation of four workshops, the organisation of an European Digital Arts Symposium in Grenoble and the set up of a database on artistic creation process. Digital technologies used for artistic creation are nowadays easily available for a large pu- blic and induce a new form of creativity that we could call “Ambiant Creativity” regarding the multiplicity and kinds of tools that are addressed. Nevertheless, this variety may blur the artistic processes and makes the relevancy more difficult to find towards the paradigm shift introduced by the earliest digital technologies. In recent years, several sociologists have observed the birth of what has been called “Ambi- ant Creativity”, thanks to computers and the new capabilities of planetary communication. This phenomenon is a reflection of the facts that digital technologies and tools are easily available for a large public (not necessarily professionals), and that this public develops its own creativity in producing and diffusing multimedia works and stimulating back general public and professionals, as never before. However, it is a difficult and problematic task today to use new technology in a relevant way without considering the paradigm shift it has brought with regards to previous technologies. The variety of tools available for artistic creation may blur the artistic process. It is important to redefine through a collective and multicultural practice the integration of art and the un- derlying science of digital technologies. The new generation of artists plays the most impor- tant role in this convergence from which the artworks of the future will emerge. The main objective of the “Ambiant Creativity” project is to contribute to the development of this “Ambiant Creativity” both at the conceptual and at the practical level through the col- laboration of its partners that are experienced in key technologies, creative and educational techniques. // the workshop “digital composition” The workshop takes place every day in an intensive work from March 14 until 18th. Students work together with composers and scientists like Claude Cadoz, Ludger Brümmer and Iannis Zannos. Computer based works will emerge from a concentrated collaboration between tea- chers and students by the use of advanced compositional techniques like algorithmic composition (SuperCollider), physical modeling (Genesis) and spatialization (Zirkoni- um). The works will be presented with the ZKM_Klangdom on March 18th. // thursday, march 17th interactive creativity 6 pm, ZKM_Vortragssaal Lecture by Sebastian Berweck: Caught in the Middle. The Interpreter in the Digital Age The pianist Sebastian Berweck talks about how working with electronics fundamentally changes the role of the performer. Working with electronics is not just an “add-on” to play- ing an instrument, it often works detrimental to playing the best concert possible. Berweck will talk about the multiple factors that contribute to the situation today and discusses ideas to make the system better. 6.45 pm, ZKM_Vortragssaal IMA | lab: National Styles in Electroacoustic Music? Workshop talk with the international stipends of “Ambiant Creativity” – Jérôme Bertholon, Omer Chatziserif, Damian Marhulets – and Sebastian Berweck. The stipends will present their current project developments which have derived from their work in Grenoble, Korfu and Karlsruhe. The project “Ambiant Creativity” aims to a trans- cultural exchange. Hence, the main topic of this talk refers to the question, if in electroacou- stic music can be find different national characterized music styles. 8 pm, ZKM_Kubus Concert with Sebastian Berweck Aitsi (1974), for amplified and distorted piano, 7’ by Giacinto Scelsi Compared to the many earlier works Scelsi wrote for the piano, Aitsi for amplified piano is remarkably harsh and unforgiving. It is also a perfect example for the way the enigma- tic Scelsi composed. In this case he incidentally recorded himself playing the piano with a broken tape recorder. The result was a distorted piano sound which he then passed on to his assistants. What is striking though is that he ordered them to keep the distortion and find a way to integrate it in the composition. Two works were thus written from the tape, the String Quartet No.5 and Aitsi. Slot Machines (2009), for piano and Mp3-Player, 8’ by Johannes Kreidler Slot Machines matches the wish to realise the aesthetics of a “music with music” as technical easy as possible. Furthermore it is the revenge for all mp3-listeners who fill complete train compartments with music. Arbeit (2007), for virtual hammond organ, 13’ by Enno Poppe “[...] The virtual hammond organ is a computer simulation of a real hammond organ and has the advantage of having free access to micro-intervals. Like in other compositions, I work with a keyboard layout which assigns the gripped key to other sounds. With this special key- board layout it is possible to play octaves with keys which are located close to each other. Hence, I can place the complete compass in a very narrow space. This enables the creation of complex models.” (E. Poppe) Arbeit is a preliminary study for Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung (piece for music theatre) which was produced by Münchener Biennale and co-produced by ZKM | IMA. Keyboard Study #1 (1966), for keyboard and video, 18’ by Terry Riley Keyboard Study #1 by Terry Riley present the minimalist style of the 1960‘s and is almost a schoolbook case of pattern music. It was written in 1966 and, contrary to Steve Reich with shifting layers and Philip Glass changing the length of the layers, Riley stacks patterns. Each hand plays different patterns in a fast tempo and together with the high volume the brain- wave entrainment has a mesmerizing effect. The video was made for the Hamburg Planeta- rium by Thomas Ploentzke based on an idea by artist Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (Berlin). It was produced by analyzing and using the MIDI data of a recording of the piece. Move (2006), for piano, live-electronics and video, 17’30” by Ludger Brümmer Move evolves gradually from a sound surface into a fully worked out chordal and rhythmic composition. This rhythmicised soundstructure consequently develops into a climax full of suspense. The structure of the piece, completely derived from algorithms shows this cha- racteristic most obviously. Process as means of composition should in this case not only be understood as a topic related to minimal music. It constitutes per se an extreme form of vari- ation in which certain units of information change gradually. Slow yet consistent change creates an enormous potential for tension. The video takes on different roles. Starting out as a reduced and realt-time-controlled element at the beginning of the work it develops into an independent narrative line, which, however, supports the structure of the piece at all times. In this work the piano represents a kind of meta-instrument since it triggers the video, sounds and a layer of processed sounds. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- no intermission // friday, march 18th spatial creativity 6 pm, ZKM_Vortragssaal Lecture by Johannes Kreidler: New Technologies and Musical Creations Technologies are affordable and manageable for everybody in an era of digitization. Four aspects are distinguahable from each other in musics: production (software), remix (availa- bility of existing music), instrument design (controller) and dissemination (social networks). Based on various examples aesthetic consequences derive, for example the
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