[spectre] ACOUSTIC SPACE LAB - SIGNAL SEVER! / LA BATIE - GENEVA

[ewen at altern.org]

ACOUSTIC SPACE LAB - SIGNAL SEVER!
PERFORMANCE SIGNAL_SEVER! – TRANSIGNAL 4


http://www.batie.ch

FESTIVAL LA BATIE - GENEVE
Mon Repos Park
WED8SEPT2004 - from 4pm to 12pm
If it rains : THU9SEPT2004
Gratuit/Free

Live performance by musicians, visual artists and high frequency and satellite telecommunications experts from Acoustic Space Lab, Projekt Atol, Makrolab and Pact Systems jamming live over satellites and working with and within the radio zones of the electromagnetic spectrum!

http://www.batie.ch/edition/2004/acoustic_space_lab_e.html

Acoustic Space Lab, Ellipse and Projekt Atol organise for La Batie festival a special 2 days event :

Starting on the 7 september, installation of the Signal Sever! Transignal 4 sensor array in the "Mon Repos" park, near the WTO building and the UN administrations. Signal Sever! Transignal 4 is the sensor array and sound and video processing unit conceptualized by Projekt Atol - Pact Systems which maps the electromagnetic spectrum, processes, transforms it and sends it back into the ether in many different directions and forms. HF, VHF, UHF, L-band, C-band and Ku-band spectrums are analysed and processed. Satellites are tracked, ground, air and maritime communications mapped. A new Radar Unit will be set to monitor the lake traffic.
Signal-Sever! (meaning Signal-North! in Slovenian language) is the continuation of the work Solar that was performed together with the group of people at Ars Electronica in 1998 (Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender, Marko Peljhan, Brian Springer). The systems used are standard systems we have used and developed for Makrolab and the World-Information.Org.

The collaborators of the project are international sound and visual artists working with primarily electronic sounds, waves and forms. Signal-Sever! combines many of the resources that Projekt Atol and associated projects have gathered in the 9 years. (www.makrolab.ljudmila.org).

8 september, from 4pm to 12pm, a 10 hours Audio-Visual performance :

- Acoustic Space Lab : performance by the sound art collectives Clausthome (LV) and Radioqualia (NZ) of the work done after their experience in Latvia at the RT32 radio-telescope, a former soviet-era antenna used to spy the west during the cold war. Since the conversion process has started, the artists of the Acoustic Space Lab initiative have been able to organise workshops and events on the site thanks to the efforts of the RIXC of Riga. Claustome will perform a live-act inspired by its work at the RT32, Radioqualia will perform a live interpretation of their Radio-Astronomy.net project.

- Signal Sever! Performance : the basic conceptual plan of the work is to follow the events in the electromagnetic spectrum according to the daily changes in the ionosphere, which have a lot to do with the sun activity and present this immateriality as a acoustic and performative experience. The performance consists of two parts – the “closed parts” and the “open parts”. Closed parts are live acts, focusing on solo projects of various experimental electronic artists. The open parts are experimental, improvisational live sessions of video and audio artists and experts, sourcing the signals from the changes in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Event Signal_Sever!-Transignal 4  on La Batie includes participation  of following  artists:

audio: Aphasic (Eindhoven), Clausthome (Riga), Evgeny Droomoff (Riga), Ewen (Tours), Jadviga (Ljubljana), Mx (Ljubljana), Nullo (Ljubljana), Octex (Ljubljana), Radioqualia (Hamilton, NZ), Random Logic (Ljubljana), Sound Meccano (Riga).

video: Ewen Chardronnet (Tours), Delray (San Francisco), Dr. Weber (Ljubljana)

----

Acoustic.Space.Lab is an ongoing process of collaboration between media artists, media activists, communications and information technology engineers, and scientists. This programme aims to develop a cross-disciplinary platform, to explore the social and creative potential of sound and acoustic environments, to formulate relations between data streams and radio waves, and to develop collaborative broadcasting and streaming strategies alongside socially dynamic communication. Participants of the Acoustic Space Lab initiative include the RIXC, Center for New Media Culture of Riga ; Radioqualia with their project Radio-Astronomy ; Projekt Atol, Makrolab and Pact Systems with their sensor array Signal Sever! ; Ellipse with their Open Sky project ; and many others.

http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/

Ellipse is a non-profit organisation based in Tours, France and created in 2000. Ellipse aims to help the development of international and European cultural exchanges in arts and technologies. Ellipse can be seen as a cultural intelligence agency and is concerned by cultural, political and social issues of the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in contemporary societies. The activities range from art production to media monitoring, scientific research explorations and rapid deployments logistics. Ellipse is partner in the following projects : Trans-Cultural Mapping ; Makrolab ; Acoustic Space Lab - Open Sky ; World-Information.Org ; Sources Ouvertes Européennes France-Lettonie.

http://e-ngo.org

Zavod Projekt Atol is a non-profit organisation, founded in 1992 and officially registered in 1994 under Slovenian law. The activities range from art production to scientific research and technology prototype development and production. The technological arm of Projekt Atol, called PACT Systems (Projekt Atol Communication Technologies) was founded in 1995, the flight operations branch, Projekt Atol Flight Operations was founded in 1999. Projekt Atol serves as the institutional, financial and logistics support frame for the following projects and initiatives: Makrolab 1997-2004 ; the resolution series projects ; trust-system series projects ; insular technologies ; slovene space agency in constitution ; transhub ; rx:tx music label and publications editing ; cosmokinetical cabinet noordung performances production (1999-2004).

http://www.rx-tx.org

----

Acoustic Space Lab has received the Leonardo Art Outsiders New Horizons Award 2003 for the project "Open Sky".

Makrolab and Radio-Astronomy are UNESCO digital arts awarded projects for the year 2004.

----

The project was made possible with grants by the following funders : RIXC (Riga), Ellipse (Fr), Fondation de France, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Mestna Obcina Ljubljana, Oddelek za Kulturo, rx:tx Ljubljana/Sempeter pri Gorici