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.
Presentation of this year’s scholarship projects
Jana Linke, REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Martin Keil, Henrik Mayer), Sine Wave Orchestra (Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida, Mizuki Noguchi)
This year’s scholarship holders of the Edith Russ House for Media Art will present their projects, which will be created during their stay in Oldenburg. The event is free of charge. In a short introductory lecture, the artists will present their work to date, outline the projects and illustrate them with pictures. The audience has the opportunity to follow the process of creating a work of art and to discuss the respective work before it is executed. This year’s scholarship holders are: Jana Linke, REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Martin Keil, Henrik Mayer), Sine Wave Orchestra (Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida, Mizuki Noguchi). Jana Linke deals with the meaning and value of work in the globalized world and poses the question of the positioning of art in the working society. In this society, the value of the individual is defined by his or her work. The artist assumes that balanced systems require the principle of waste, or “if you build high, you have to dig deep next door”. She develops a machine that, in a decadently wasteful activity, ensures that a worker is provided with work:
A machine that digs itself into sand and is then dug out again by an employee so that it can dig itself back in.
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Martin Keil and Henrik Mayer)
also have a socio-political project. It is entitled “The Risk Society”. In the context of the general economic crisis, Keil and Mayer examine the tendency to shift the risks of our economy from the general public to the individual. The artists see themselves as researchers who use an artistic eye to observe the social processes that arise in the difference between professional life and personal demands. Keil and Mayer want to discuss and collaborate with local groups in Oldenburg in order to ultimately create an installation on this topic.
The Sine Wave Orchestra (Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida and Mizuki Noguchi) has been performing public performances with the audience since 2002, based on the principle of generating sounds from individual sine waves. In their Oldenburg project, they want to create an installation in which the sound generation depends not only on the participants, but also on the weather and the time of day. The objects, which each generate sound via a loudspeaker by means of a sine curve, only work in sunlight, so that this element regulates the volume and composition of the sounds. Each new visitor places another sound-generating element and thus contributes to the “orchestra”.
The scholarship program of the Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art is funded by the Lower Saxony Foundation and has enabled the development and implementation of three qualitative and new projects in the field of media art per year for eight years.