for people aged 12 – 100 (also suitable as further training for teachers)
In this workshop you can build your own instruments that play sine waves and react to light. After building the devices, we will playfully try out the instruments to explore the acoustic manifestations of the sine wave. A joint performance as a sine wave orchestra will conclude the workshop. The self-built instruments can be taken home at the end of the workshop.
5 € material contribution/person
Also important: No previous technical knowledge or musical talent is necessary!
A cooperation with klangpol. klangpol is supported by the Netzwerk Neue Musik, a funding project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
The SINEWAVE ORCHESTRA (SWO) is a participatory sound performance project that has been performing since 2002. Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida and Mizuki Noguchi form the core group of SWO.In 1822, the French mathematician Fourier discovered that sine waves can be used as basic elements to produce almost any periodic sound in the world. Based on this theory, SWO considers each sine wave as a participant and the collective audio representation as a community. The interferences and resonances of the sine waves represent the relationship between the participants. A group can thus form an “ocean of sine waves” together. The SWO is planning to stage a participatory audio piece for the 2009 scholarship program of the Lower Saxony Foundation for Media Art at the Edith Russ House for Media Art.