IC at Sonar 2014
Interface Culture has been present at Sonar, 12th 13th and 14th June 2014 in Barcelona.
Sonar is a worldwide known Festival of Advanced Music and New Media Art, with . It is the gathering point for new tendencies and researches of contemporary music, Interface Culture has been invited to participate and present some of the projects in Sonar+D, platform within the Festival that brings together technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, companies and researchers.
The IC Team is led by Martin Kaltenbrunner, with the participation of Davide Bevilacqua, Enrique Tomás, Reinhard Gupfinger, Veronika Krenn, that presented their projects in the MarketLab, showcase for research department and companies, with a presentation in a slot on the Stage+D.
Here all the projects that we presented in Barcelona.
Data Slicer – Fruitfulness
Veronika Krenn & Vesela Mihaylova
Since the beginning of time, tools were invented to simplify the hunting, cutting, cooking and eating processes. Nowadays there exist specific devices for almost each single dish or task, promising to be timesaving and simple in usage.
Apples are not only the most popular fruit in Central Europe, they are also brimming with symbolic meanings and mythic associations. In many cultures the fruit stands for life, knowledge, love and fertility. The project “Data Slicer – Fruitfulness” visualizes statistical data sets regarding the human reproduction by means of apples and a modified slicer tool.
The “Data Slicer – Fruitfulness” project is a food data visualization experiment from the “Taste of Data” series, which tries to transmit data into our daily life eating process. The visitor is asked to try out the new device and to enjoy the fresh fruits.
Ursuppe
Alberto Boem & Davide Bevilacqua
Ursuppe is a sound performance that involves jelly made out of the seaweed Agar-Agar and analog oscillators casted in a jelly-like material, in a setup that creates a complex soundscape characterized by unpredictability and uncertainty.
The combination of these elements produces a stratified and unstable mixture of drones with a variable frequency and oscillating rhythmic figures. Trough this system the performers shape a network of relations between the different islands and modify throughout it the flow of energy.
The audience can listen the effects on the matter resulting from the actions of the performers, and the oxidation and liquefaction of the substances due to the energy of the sound itself.
Sound Tossing
Sound Tossing is an alternative type of street art that uses sound as a medium of creative expression in a public space. As the streets belong to the people, the intention is to appeal to anyone who wants to shape their acoustic space.
Tangible Scores
Enrique Tomás
A “Tangible Score” is a tactile interface for musical expression that incorporates a score in its physical shape, surface structure or spatial configuration. Every interface is conceived from a different graphical score that represents a musical idea and it has been also specially designed for providing a diverse palette of electronic sounds when touched.
HERE you find the recording of the performance of Enrique and Davide on the stage of Sonar+D.
Here the pictures of our presentations.