Headphone festival

The Headphone festival was good!

There were live concerts by Simon Roy, vectral, Morten Riis, Jonas Olesen and me. Also compositions by other artists were presented, including Rune Søchting, André Falsig, Stormhat and Karsten Pflum.

Simon Roy

Vectral

Me

Relaxed audience

A guy who wasn't allowed to borrow headphones, but participated the best he could anyway.

A pair of really ok dudes

...and the one dude smiling on an orange-furniture-device... Who wouldn't:-)

The concert was held in the foyer at Musikhuset Aarhus. Not the most charming place in town but quite many people came by and listened. The good thing was that many of the guests were people not used to this kind of experimental, electronic music and it is allways interesting to witness the different reactions. This 10 weeks old guy responded with a smile...

Headphone Concert preparation

Tomorrow I will be playing a concert at the Spor-Festival in Århus, Denmark. It will be a headphone concert afternoon and many artists have made works for the event and some will play live concerts, including me.

So, as usually, I'm interested in the transition between digital and acoustical representation of music; the convertion that gives the music physical, percievable attributes. I like to think of is as a birth.

For generating sound material to this 21 minute long head-phone-composition, I made this setup.

It's a metal plate (from a stove) hanging in a vertical position, with four speakers placed on it. The four speakers ar connected to an amplifier. From a very simple max patch I send sines or squarewaves at individual frequencies to the speakers. This way the speakers appears as vibrating, electromechanical objects, rather than as a media interface, which is the role that they normally have.

The metal plate resonates and the mix of speaker sound and resonating metal plate is recorded. It gives some really nice drones.

The mic is placed as close to the plate as possible to catch the small modulations emitted from the plate.

This is the proto type and me...

I will upload some sound from this soon.

The mail man just brought me this from China.

It's a backlit display for a Arduino project. But more about that later...

Choir of Ugandan belivers

Her er en flok utrolig dejlige mennesker som jeg har arbejdet lidt sammen med. Det er et kor fra en lokal kirke. De kan ikke engelsk så mange af dem men de er meget glade og det er helt klart vigtigst! De vil gerne lave en cd så jeg prøver at indspille lidt af deres sange. Men jeg har ikke meget gear med så det bliver lidt primitivt. 

Her er mikrofonerne monteret på et omvendt bord fra en singer symaskine.

Lokal abe

Den her meget nysgerrige skabning bor i en lille skov en god kilometer væk. Den bor sammen med sin far og mor og søskende og sikker også nogle bedsteforældre osv. Det er ret fedt at der er så aktivt et dyreliv, selv udenfor nationalparkerne. 

Flere dyr

Her er en Black and White Casqued Hornbill. Den har vi ikke set før her i området. Vi har kun set en Crowned Hornbill så det var en stor dag:-)

fugle m.m.

Det her er en crested crane. Det er nationalfuglen. Det er meget meget svært at få gode billeder af fugle. Men her fik jeg mig sneget ganske tæt på. Idag så jeg også 3 fugle af arten Ross' Turaco. De er en smule sjældne og det var umuligt at tage billeder af dem. 

Her har en fyr ved navn Alfred, fnaget en ildflue. Han tog os på en nat-kanotur på en bjergsø i det sydlige Uganda. Søen hedder Lake Bunyonyi og ligger næsten i 2 kilometers højde. Det er et fantastisk flot sted.

Det her er en Pied Kingfisher. Den springer gerne hovedkuls i baljen for en lille fisk.

Her er en ananas plantage. Organisk Autechre.

Papagøje

Her er der en papagøje der kigger ind af vores vindue. Det er en såkaldt "Brown Parrot". Der er i det hele taget utrolig mange dejlige fugle her i landet. Jeg tror der er vågnet en lille ornitolog i mig...