27.07.03 - speicher 9/tischlerei - 21:00
(don’t) try at home!
Time’s up: Anchortronic
5.1 Dolby Surround project presentation
   

Dolby Digital is a digital cinema sound system that works with up to 5 absolutely discreet channels (left, middle, right, right surround, left surround). Additionally, there is a separate subwoofer-channel that is called the low frequency effects channel. This is why it is called a 5.1 surround system.

In contrast to conventional stereo technique, a surround system generated spatial sound effects that give the listener the impression to be in the middle of the scene. With the emergence of the DVD this technique has found its way into the living room. Home cinema systems, DVD-drives and 5.1 sound cards in computers make the formerly only costly realisable spatial sound environment more accessible. With the 5.1 technique it becomes possible to reproduce a real space acoustically. The surprised listener, who turns his head since he believes to hear steps right behind him or bends down under a closely over him flying helicopter. This technique offers artists interesting opportunities to manipulate and control the space and to play with perception.

A special focus lies on the use of the system as an extension of the musical and dramaturgical instruments; the reduction to pure effect is to be avoided. We introduce in cooperation with Anchortronic Linz several projects in this context and invite artists to work with this system. Different approaches and positions will be presented in a concert performance.
   

1. m9 / earcondition - Anchortronic (Linz/A)
Time to drop the anchor!
Since it was founded by Anatol Bogendorfer and Andreas Mayrhofer in 2000, the Anchortronic Free Agency has been looking after musical interests in the framework of existing and emerging structures, as mediator, motor and promoter of very different approaches to the subject of music in auditory and visual dimensions. Besides the non-commercial focus on cross-culture in smaller or bigger contexts, the named basic philosophy of small independent structures managed by the producers themselves and the idea »of keeping things small« as long as they are small, flow into all our activities.Aktivitäten.
> http://www.timesup.org/anchortronic
   
2. Alex Davies (AUS)
Alex Davies studied Fine Arts and has been occupied with digital art/music since 1996. Next to various awarded films and exhibitions in Australia and Europe his work lead him to Time's Up, the Linz-based laboratory for the construction of experimental situations, with whom he realised diverse installations (a.o. Body Spin). He became known with works like »Filter Feeder«, a multi-channel-sound installation, in which textures, dynamics and motion of sound are controlled by a fish. The creature navigates through the electromagnetic spectrum drawing fragments of sound into the physical environment. Another work, »body electric«, was the first outcome of ongoing research into the psycho physiological effects of sound and environmental manipulation of humans.
> http://schizophonia.com/
   
3. Michael Strohmann (A)
(*1972) Training at the bass school Munich and at the institute for electro-acoustic in Vienna. Involved with the music performance group Fuckhead and the theatre groups Bilderwerfer and Toxic Dreams as composer and interface designer. Interests focus primarily on the fields of intrauterine perception, entropy and self-organization, anxiety and liberty.
> http://sm.xdv.org