RadioSolarKompass is an artistic radio format, which experiments
with forms
of cognition, composition and representation
of acoustic spaces in context of medial networking. Radio stations
around the world get received and are streamed in dependence
on the po- sition of the sun (sunrise). This composition can be demonstrated as an invisible reality : the earth rotation gets audible.
It takes the listener on a virtual journey around the world and spends solar energy all day long: www.radiosolarkompass.org.
Concept: A.Kaufmann/
Programming, Interface: Roman Häfeli/ Sounddesign: Häfeli&Kaufmann/ Publication: Research Project NOW2, Zürich (CH)/
Support: Federal Culture Office of Switzerland 2007.
Smoking Garden Transference is a sound installation which observes frequences
and transfering energy with liquids. Water gets influenced in its structure by different energies.
The disposition of the installation are medical drip bags, which drip in a certain frequence and drops fall into pots with different liquids. Microphones catche the sound of the falling drip. The structure of the moving liquid visualize
the frequence and the sound underlines the reaction.
Teamwork Bethany Lacktorin, Violine/ Akita.y, Computer. Exhibition in Fabs Gallery Warsaw (PL) 2008.
Crash with Golemka plays with the immateriality of feelings. Simple and brute sound system: Light sensor and cassette player.
When a visitor passes the lightsensor placed by the entry of the room, it triggers the player and cries of pain are audible.
Emotional crashes between people indicate the existence of feelings and phenomena of human
mind. Sometimes one would rather have a crash with a door, it hurts in a more
comfortable way.
Exhibited at the Biennale in Prague (CZ) 2005.
Darwin is dead is a 3D room where in the middle stands
a red cube with Darwin‘s pictures on it. The room
is a mirror room with moving man figures on the wall.
The game is made with the ego-shooter game Unreal Tournament,
where it‘s used to shoot robots. This game has no robots and you can shoot only yourself in the mirrors. The aim of
the game is to search four chaotic sound rooms. If you find one room, a picture of Darwin gets replaced by another picture.
The game find it‘s end, when all pictures of Darwin are replaced. The game is a dispute of the famous conclusion „the survival
of the fittest“ and one of the most important ability of men,
that he is able to reflect himself.
Betarhythmica is a software and multi-user system to exchange sound samples and to
generate soundscapes in which the user produces its own sound strory by navigating trough. The system allows interaction in the
physical space. You can place samples on a city map in the internet and via GPS
(Global Positioning System), the samples get transmitted and creates a new acoustic city by walking with headphones.
The theoretical focus of this work lays in the question of creative common sense, remixing, acoustic ecology,
linear systems versus chaotic systems (The first popular medium book gets complemented by
the modern medium internet, in which users arrange the information by hyperlinks with
no concrete beginning and no concrete end), top-down systems versus bottom-up systems.
Diploma work and teamwork with Hyperwerk students.
Exhibited in the New Media gallery PlugIn, Basel (CH) 2003.
Tarot Ringtone composition is made for Darina Alsters Video Tarot for Mobile Devices. The collection consist of the 22 arche types of the Tarot cards.
The composition is not time based and works for independently ringing of the mobile phones. Every card has a caraceteristic sound accompanied by a specific classical instrument, as the archetypes are categorized in 4 groups, earth, water, fire, wind. Exhibited at the Cannes International Film Festival (F) 2008.
Calculus is not a person, because it doesn't know any emotional life. Programmed to be different. The audio picture meant to be on the wall and it sounds from time to time. Graphics show different constellations. Exhibited in the Divo Institute, Kolín (CZ) 2009.
