we will present ole kristensens “work in progress” i cooperation with black box gallery and gallery brunnhofer. “work in progress” will be on display in gallery brunnhofer during the festival, along with 3 pixel fades made by mikrogalleriets curator jacob sikker remin.

jacob sikker remin will also exhibit his fluorescent light tube installation “kuben” at the main exhibition of ars electronica.

send us an email if you would like to meet up. we would sure love to meet you out there!

its going to be a fun packed evening:

videomusik will play. la belle indifference will play, and exhibit some of their home built instruments and installations. there will be a showing of raquel meyers brand new music video for the track pink snow. there will be beer and 8bit coffee.

opening hours: friday 14th of may: 17.00-21.00

download the press release here (in danish)

the book and map from the GET LOST project is now finally out. the book offers an interesting view on the alternative side of copenhagen, and covers “49cm“, the very first show in mikrogalleriet.

100 physical copies will be sold from the danish architectural centers book store, and a digital version is available online.

“the post-tropical” is a sound and video installation inspired by a recent series of field recordings made on the large island of hawaii. while making these recordings i was struck by the beauty of the flickering night sounds, a series of interlocking patterns that is not unlike the sound of synaptic firings i’ve encountered in my previous brainwave generated music. what i thought was a natural beauty, however, was in fact a hybridization of species that were indigenous and foreign to the ecosystem. some 10 years earlier, the multinational corporation wal-mart accidentally introduced frogs that are indigenous to the dominican republic / puerto rico within a shipment of packaged plants and soil. ultimately these frogs multiplied exponentially in hawaii in an environment without any natural predators. this installation is a meditation upon received notions of “nature” within a post-industrial and globalized world.

http://www.zachlaytonindustries.com/

BIO
zach layton is a composer, curator, improviser and new media artist based in brooklyn with an interest in biofeedback, generative algorithms, experimental music, dada and chance. his work investigates complex relationships and topologies created through the interaction of simple core elements like sine waves, minimal surfaces and kinetic visual patterns.

zach’s work has been performed by the cleveland chamber symphony and he has performed and exhibited at the kitchen, roulette, joe’s pub, exit art, art forum berlin, new york electronic art festival, yerba buena center for the arts, eyebeam, sculpture center, diapason, issue project room, millenium film workshop, bushwick arts project, st. mark’s ontological theater, dumbo arts festival, new york digital salon, miguel abreu gallery, participant gallery, monkeytown and many other venues in new york, south america and europe. he has collaborated with luke dubois, vito acconci, joshua white, jonas mekas, bradley eros, andy graydon, nick hallett, matthew ostrowski, michael evans, mv carbon, seth kirby, matthew welch, christine bard, alex waterman, ryan sawyer, scott draves, emily manzo, patrick hambrect, marissa olsen, angie eng, adam kendall, chika ijima, peter gordon, tristan perich and ray sweeten among many other artists, filmmakers, curators and musicians.

zach is also founder of brooklyn’s monthly experimental music series, “darmstadt: classics of the avant garde” co-curated with nick hallett featuring leading local and international composers and improvisers, co-curator of the ps1 summer warmup music series and the chief curator of issue project room. zach has received grants from the netherlands america foundation, turbulence and the jerome foundation and is a graduate of the oberlin conservatory and the interactive telecommunications program.

this exhibition is made possible by the danish committee for visual art and cph air.

17:30 - 19:30 opening & performance
monitorgalleri
rådhuspladsen 45 copenhagen
http://www.monitorgalleri.net/

tristan and zach will also be giving artist talks at dorkbot cph in kunsthal nikolaj, february 6th 15-17

you can download the full press release (in danish) here: http://mikrogalleriet.net/presse/presse-investigations-in-physical-sound.pdf

and you can read more about tristan perich’s “interval studies” here: http://www.mikrogalleriet.net/?p=32

mark your calendars: opening hours and openings for the 2 shows are as follows:

tristan perich: “interval studies” // february 5th - 14th // opening february 5th 17-21
zach layton: “the post-tropical” // february 19th - 28th // opening february 19th 17-21
mikrogalleriet // gormsgade 9, 2200 cph n // thursday and friday 17-21, weekends 13-18

]]> http://www.mikrogalleriet.net/?feed=rss2&p=33 http://www.mikrogalleriet.net/?p=32 http://www.mikrogalleriet.net/?p=32#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:40:53 +0000 jacob sikker remin http://www.mikrogalleriet.net/?p=32 on february 5th tristan perich (NYC) is opening his exhibit “interval studies” in mikrogalleriet.

below is the artists statement:

tristan perich: “interval studies”

300 small speakers drape the walls in linear and planar clusters, each emitting tones tuned microtonally to span distinct frequency intervals. these dense clusters of sound sources are the subject of a series of musical compositions, continuing perich’s investigations into the foundations of electronic sound. each speaker, emitting a single, primitive 1-bit tone, becomes a microscopic voice in the total composition, substituting individual pitch for larger sonic masses.

1-bit waveforms are the simplest possible digital manifestation of sound. on and off pulses of electricity, produced by hand-programmed microchips and routed directly to audio speakers, cause the speaker membrane to vibrate and produce extremely raw tones. data creates sound without intervening components such as digital-analogue converters, creating a direct link between the abstract and the physical. interested in the aural aesthetic and the concepts behind 1-bit audio, perich first explored the medium in 1-bit music, a 40-minute “album” of electronic music programmed onto a microchip and packaged inside a standard cd jewel case with a headphone jack mounted through the side (its followup will be released this fall). these stereophonic compositions treated each headphone speaker as a discrete audio source. working with microchip/speaker pairs as individual instruments, perich began composing for ensembles of traditional classical instruments accompanied by 1-bit speakers on stage, such as “active field,” for ten violins and ten-channel 1-bit music.

“interval studies” is full-on assault on this idea, implementing clusters of hundreds of small speakers. by tuning them precisely, perich aims to work with electronic sound on the microscopic level. the series of compositions for the instrument will be scored geometrically and algorithmically to create hundred-part pieces of music. the resulting modular art work can be comfortably installed on a gallery wall. his recent work, “impulse manifold,” has been realized as a self-contained 15-channel audio panel, whose design could be multiplied to create the speaker clusters: each 12″ square circuit board is synchronized by a master chip. most technical details have been satisfied by that project, and the construction of the wall is mostly reduced to the iterative task of soldering together many, many speakers onto molded boards. perich is no stranger to working at scale, from daisy-chaning video generators to create an 18 television installation, to installing 1,300 fiber optic wires (approx. 2 miles) to create a low-resolution 3-d display.

this exhibition is supported by the danish arts council committee for visual art and cph air

expect an evening of inspired ideas, dynamic discussion and decision-making live in copenhagen, and world-wide via the web stream.

people from all over the world have sent in some genius ideas, from olivia the climate scientist’s achievable and proven plan for an inner-city composting education scheme, to 6 year-old ashton’s scheme for a 300 mile-long sanctuary for 12000 cobras! this friday, it will be up to each of you to  discuss the ideas and then decide where your money goes.

on friday the 18th december at 7pm, make your way to the climate forum at dgi-byen, copenhagen, or if you’re elsewhere you can pledge online at http://pledgepyramid.org and follow the events there.

there will also be a pre-game public discussion on wednesday 16th december at rådhuspladsen from 12 noon to 9pm when talkaoke returns to copenhagen for a long day of climate chat. bring your own agenda!

http://talkaoke.com

what is talkaoke then? well, it’s the ufo of chat

talkaoke is a live, television-style talk show, where people can grab the microphone and air their views around the table of chat. the format is simple but powerful: the host sits in the middle, and everyone else sits around the outside and talks about whatever they want to talk about.

click this link to learn about talkaoke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lthH2eZugQ8

“i am recruiting you to join a world-wide people’s pyramid scheme to save the planet from environmental catastrophe, and have fun doing it.

if you recruit 5 people this week, and they recruit 5 next week, by december the entire population of the world will be on board. and if everyone who can afford to pledges 5 euros each, and commits to a shared goal, the pyramid scheme will have the ability to change anything.

and what happens to all the money and power?

that is up to the pyramid. along with your pledge, the pyramid invites your ideas, suggestions, hopes, and inspiration. if you could ask *everyone* to do something to save the planet, what would it be?

at the cop15 climate summit in copenhagen in december 2009, all the ideas will be discussed by the public around the talkaoke table on street corners, in shopping centres, parks, and schools, and spread around the world via social networking sites and news media.

finally, people will gather in a copenhagen theatre for a dramatic, democratic, decision-making game-show where they will be able to share ideas, consult internet participants, and vote on the collective action.”

more info here: http://wiki.theps.net/index.php/Planetary_Pledge_Pyramid

saul is giving a talk tonight at dorkbot, this time hosted by our friends at illutron.