ALMAT @ BEK - Thresholds of the Algorithmic by Hanns Holger Rutz

Exposition for the workshop-in-exposition taking place in Bergen, Norway, June 2018. This event is a collaboration between Almat and BEK Bergen for Electronic Art, and part of BEK and Notam’s ongoing series of workshops for advanced users. It is a hybrid format that places the workshop inside an exhibition context, where the exposed works and artefacts form the basis of the workshop’s activity. Instead of “closed works”, what is exposed to the general public are objects, sounds or installations that are open to engagement and reconfiguration during the workshop. Theme: Thresholds are locations of transitions, points where one modality becomes another, where a qualitative change occurs. In physics the point where an aggregate state changes—the phase transition—is a distinguished transitional location where the properties of the adjacent states become evident. Similarly, in this workshop-in-exposition we want to study the properties of the algorithmic by putting ourselves in threshold positions and actively shape them. More than merely separating two sides, one can spend time on a threshold, move along a ridge, performing a tightrope walk while trying not to fall to either side.

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Stefano Zorzanello

Musician, scholar and sound designer, born in Vicenza in 1969. He developed research activities in Australia, Portugal, Italy, producing audio documentaries for Radio RAI, sound installation for museums, theatre music for pieces directed by di J. Grosso, G.B.Corsetti. His compositions have been performed among the others by Mistress, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Eva Kant Ensemble, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Strumentisti dell’Arena di Verona. Actually based in Catania where he founded SoundScape Research Group, since 2004 he started a research and educational activity in soundscape studies, environmental music and acoustic ecology, and actually he is president of FKL Forum Klanglandschaft, international association gathering people interested in soundscape listening and responsible management.

http://www.klanglandschaft.org, http://www.ssrg.it, http://www.paesaggiosonoro.it

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In their former concept, some aspects, which are not completely coherent with the environmental-circularity idea, are employed rather as a mean to improve (in my opinion) the aesthetic fruition of the piece.

Following the line of "radicalization" I would like to take this challenge to reduce or cut all the uncoherent/unnecessary processes, and try to produce a different formal segmentation directly from the sound input analysis.

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