Chip Interpretations: guest lecture and electronic music performance
Dr Till Bovermann (Media Lab Helsinki), inaugural researcher in residence at the Digital Performance Laboratory.
Date: Thursday 8 December 2011
Time: 18.00
Venue: Helmore 029 (Recital Hall)
This event is free and open to the public.
What is the character of discrete information? This multichannel sonic study with accompanying talk and demonstration explores the very nature of digital material and its representation in sound. Specifically, the project investigates a dataset on a sub-semantic level, incorporating the very basics of computing: a stack, a heap, an instruction set and a program counter. Using a software probe inserted into a virtual chip, we are able to listen to the raw materials of a dataset executing as an assembler program. These datasets can then be chosen and shaped as compositional resources for electronic music composition. This project is explored using the DetaBlocker programme, a SuperCollider implementation of a fictional CPU with 256 bits of memory.
Till Bovermann is a researcher, artist, and engineer, currently exploring tangible and auditory interfaces at the Media Lab Helsinki, where he leads the TAI Studio. He has worked at various institutes within Bielefeld University, Germany, most recently in the Ambient Intelligence Group of the CITEC Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence.
Till Bovermann's artistic works are mostly concerned with the relationship between digital and physical space. He is co-founder of TooManyGadgets, a media art group that tries to illuminate this relationship. Till Bovermann has created installation pieces in conjunction with Animax, Bonn and as member of TooManyGadgets. Alongside his artistic and academic work, he also develops software, mainly in SuperCollider.
Date: Thursday 8 December 2011
Time: 18.00
Venue: Helmore 029 (Recital Hall)
This event is free and open to the public.
What is the character of discrete information? This multichannel sonic study with accompanying talk and demonstration explores the very nature of digital material and its representation in sound. Specifically, the project investigates a dataset on a sub-semantic level, incorporating the very basics of computing: a stack, a heap, an instruction set and a program counter. Using a software probe inserted into a virtual chip, we are able to listen to the raw materials of a dataset executing as an assembler program. These datasets can then be chosen and shaped as compositional resources for electronic music composition. This project is explored using the DetaBlocker programme, a SuperCollider implementation of a fictional CPU with 256 bits of memory.
Till Bovermann is a researcher, artist, and engineer, currently exploring tangible and auditory interfaces at the Media Lab Helsinki, where he leads the TAI Studio. He has worked at various institutes within Bielefeld University, Germany, most recently in the Ambient Intelligence Group of the CITEC Cognitive Interaction Technology Center of Excellence.
Till Bovermann's artistic works are mostly concerned with the relationship between digital and physical space. He is co-founder of TooManyGadgets, a media art group that tries to illuminate this relationship. Till Bovermann has created installation pieces in conjunction with Animax, Bonn and as member of TooManyGadgets. Alongside his artistic and academic work, he also develops software, mainly in SuperCollider.
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