ADD soundsystem ver. 2.0
30. April – 01. June 2008, Ciant Gallery, CZ_Prague
rRadim Labuda (SK/CZ) (project author),
Darina Alster (production, CIANT),
Milan Guštár (CZ) (technical support)
CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies
installation,
performance,
opening/exhibition
Interactive installation and performance series
Project ADD SOUNDSYSTEM is a sound installation conceived as an
open system and tool for other artists to realize their own sound content. ADD SOUNDSYSTEM can become a space for some form of music production or performance, it can be used as a sound installation or a sonic playground for a workshop. The aim is to create a specific social context, space for encounters, communication and participation. ADD SOUNDSYSTEM oscilates between different types of sound production and perception. It decentralizes the position of musician / performer and obliterates both creative and physical gap between the creator and the audience. Installation is designed to be as transparent, easily understood and operated for any audience member.
ADD SOUNDSYSTEM consists of two basic connected components:
mixing table and suspended loudspeaker grid. The mixing table is a combinatoric matrix constructed from simple electronic elements. It contains five input units and a larger number of output units. Each output unit is a very simple mixer which allows to produce a variable mix of the five inputs fed into the system. Sound producers and audience take their places and operate input and output units according to the current situation (music production, performance, workshop, installation). The most typical would be a situation where the output units are handled by the audience and inputs are taken by the creator/s.
The loudspeaker grid contains number of single loudspeakers which is double the number of output units - as the speakers are in stereo pairs. Each output unit is connected to a pair of speakers. Speakers are suspended under the gallery ceiling and spaced out into an even grid creating a sound field. This situation allows the audience to actively shape the sound field created in the gallery. The perception of the sound composition then depends on the listener’s position in space which means that each listener’s experience is individual and unique.
Performances by:
Anja Kaufmann
Beseppy
Dan Vlček
Darina Alster
DJ Francois Perrin
Krusha
Martin Janíček
Michal Cabowitz
Michal Mariánek
Rentip
Tomáš Vaněk
Mark Eisler
rRadim Labuda (born 1976) has studied Faculty of Architecture at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava and Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studios of Prof. Miloš Šejn and Prof. Michael Bielický. In 2004 he received a semester exchange at San Francisco Art Institute. In 2005 has become finalist for the Oskár Čepan Award in Slovakia. Graduated in 2006. Since 2004 his work is focused on the medium of video. Exhibited nationally and internationally.
http://radimradim.org
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