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frequencies (a) is a sound performance combining the sound of mechanically triggered tuning forks with pure digital soundwaves. The performer is triggering sequences from the computer, activating solenoids that hits the tuning forks with high precision. Streams of light burst in synchronicity with the forks, creating a not-quite-minimal sound and light composition.

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ON TOUR
AUTUMN 2013: TBA
ELEKTRA (CA) - May 2-4, 2013
ELECTRIC SPRING (UK) - Febuary 13, 2013
LAB30 (DE) - October 25-26, 2012
ODDSTREAM (NL) - October 27, 2012
ELECTRIC FIELDS (CA) - October 10, 2012

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CREDITS
• nicolas bernier: audiovisual composition, concept, performance, programmation, technical design and some electronics
• olivier lefebvre: techical design
• laurent loison: fabrication

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nicolasbernier.com

Mendy, reactive installation, Lucas Buschfeld, 2012

"Irrational Computing" is an artistic test of material, esthetics and potentials of the digital. The installation is based on semiconductor crystals – the basic commodity of information technology. It consists of five interlinked modules that use the varied electrical and mechanical particularities and characteristics of crystals and minerals and, through their networking, form a kind of raw and primitive macroscopic signal processor.

2011

rlfbckr.org/irrational_computing

This new 2013 transcode of Phil Morton's masterful 1976 project General Motors is released in 2 parts to maintain the best quality possible. This transcode was made made by Peter Kusek for the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive, an open project founded by jonCates in 2007.

Phil Morton's 1976 project General Motors is understood to be a seminal work of Video Art, being included in the Video Data Bank's classic collection of historic Video Art, Surveying the First Decade. An excerpt of General Motors appears in the section Performance of Video-Imaging Tools of the Surveying the First Decade collection: vdb.org/titles/surveying-first-decade-volume-2

General Motors is one of the best known artworks by Phil Morton, having screened internationally in various Media Art festivals and exhibitions. Phil Morton processes video footage throughout General Motors using the Sandin Analogue Image Processor, an open-sourced modular patch-programable system for computing audio/video that Morton and Sandin worked together on to document and distribute the plans to build copies of. Sandin himself refers to Morton as a virtuoso of the Image Processor. jonCates, founder of the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive (an archive of over 500 videotapes from Phil Morton's "personal data bank"), calls General Motors a "a cyberpsychedelic remixological roadtrip across the American imagination".

vdb.org/artists/phil-morton
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Morton
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