STEIM presents two lectures in one night

Sven König — sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! (see also this post)
Phoebe Legere — Sneaker Lecture

Location: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Date: Tuesday May 23 2006
Time: 20:00
Entrance: free

Phoebe Legere’s ‘Color Sneakers’ utilizes a computational system for translating spontaneous music composition and improvisation into visual music abstraction. Aural vocabulary is transformed into visual design. The programming environment is provided by Jitter & MaxMSP. Data sets are collected through the sneakers and translated to abstract visual music using sensors that determine the position of the foot in space. Legere will talk about how the Sneakers of Samothrace grew out of her work with disabled children, and will talk about her dream of a Disabled Avant Garde Color Orchestra, where the handicapped, infirm, injured and congenitally disfigured are given musical superpowers and become the visionaries of an ecstatic post body culture.
http://www.phoebelegere.com/

Sven König will present his project / software sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! He will try to explain why sampling is not citation or referencing but just working with concrete musical memories and why this assumption made the developement of s?H! necessary. s?H! is a software which can reconstruct any audio input out of short samples of any musical material that was previously analyzed and saved in a database. This works in realtime and if the audio input comes from a microphone the human voice as the original instrument is the direct interface to the samples in the database. Sven is part of the MTV generation, so he extended audio sampling to sampling of complete music videos. The software will be demonstrated and the microphone will be handed over to the audience.
http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz/