Klaus Filip | Austria

Almost all of Klaus Filip's art projects have been driven by technological possibilities and the social need to change structures. Among them subVoice (an underground tapemagazine), Sigis Bruder (early electronic songs together with singer Sigi Ecker), Christof Kurzmann's Orchester 33 1/3, Zentrifuge, music for short films, theatre, dance, sound-installations. He is the musical and electro-mechanic father of BigBaby, an outstanding intermedial project around a sculpture build by Red White and brought to life by the movements of Cynthia Schwertsik. Filip is the inventor and never sleeping developer of the open-source software lloopp (http://lloopp.klingt.org), a musical instrument on the computer to provide open structures for live-improvisation, used by many well-known electronic musicians.

http://bigbaby.klingt.org/klaus_filip.html

Project: Fingerprinting Sound Memories
Category: Sound Art
Period: September 2006
Event: "Nodar Pushing the Medium #2" Symposium

A sound reaching a humans ear will get analyzed in our brains and mapped via memory and experience into semantic information.

This analyzes is based on a few obvious parameters: overall loudness-characteristics or envelope, pitch and very important formant-structure and again formant-envelopes.

Similiar to smelling one can memorize a unique sound of a place. Nodar, Portugal in this special case.

The question now is, how much of that information is necessary to provide to make a sound sound like an acoustic event that is somehow memorized and associated with a special place?

A bank of sinus-tones combined with multiple envelopes should bring closer to an answer and should create nice music.

Klaus's comments on the symposium:

The organization of PTM#2 was realy perfect and lovingly done. (...) Needless to say again, that this time in Nodar was very refreshing, productive, inspiring, hearty and much more, thanks to you all (the organization and the other artists)!

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