Zur diesjährigen transmediale 10. ist das CHB als Koproduzent an der Verwirklichung des technologischen Kompositionsprojektes des Künstlerduos –[The User] (Emmanuel Madan und Thomas McIntosh aus Kanada) –  beteiligt.

 Als Hommage an den ungarischen Komponisten György Ligeti und sein Werk "Poéme Symphonique"  entwickelte [The User] Coincidences Engines One & Two. In den  Installationen "Universal People´s Republic Time"  und  "Approximate demarcator of constallations in other cosmos" wird das Uhrwerk als musikalisches Instrument zur reichhaltigen Quelle komlexer akustischer Strukturen und Effekte.

Führung durch die Ausstellung mit den Künstlern und der Kuratorin Honor Harger am 4. Februar 2010, 12:45 Uhr

ENGLISH VERSION

Coincidence Engines is a series of works conceived in homage to the Poème Symphonique of 20th-century Hungarian composer György Ligeti, who used metronomes not simply to keep musical time, but as generators of sonic events.

Extending and developing this approach, Coincidence Engines employs a multitude of dynamically modulated time-keeping devices to explore themes of regimentation, multiplicity, (im)perfection and entropy. The project reinterprets the clock as a machine which has the capacity to transcend the workaday function of keeping time. Coincidence Engines treats the seemingly mundane event of a clock's tick as a building block for the construction of rich and complex acoustic structures The first two works in the Coincidence Engines seriesare subtitled One: Universal Peopleʼs Republic Time, and Two: Approximate demarcator of constellations in other cosmos. These two installations approach the idea of "co-incident" events from complementary perspectives.

Coincidence Engine One assembles a large number of unsynchronized clocks whose combined ticking sounds produce an unusual and intriguingly organic sonic environment. Coincidence Engine Two develops a sophisticated synchronization control and amplification system around a group of specially-modified clocks that enables the artists to articulate audio-visual compositions by programming and sequencing the clocks' ticking behaviour.

Biography / Biographie:

[The User] is a contemporary art collective comprised of architect and installation artist Thomas McIntosh, and composer and sound artist Emmanuel Madan. This Canadian duo has attained wide international recognition for their ground-breaking projects Silophone and Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers, which re-imagine relationships between technological systems, culture and human experience in striking ways. [The User] takes its name from a term employed by our technocratic society, especially in design-related fields such as engineering, architecture and software development. The term 'user' objectifies and reduces individuality to an abstract and generic ideal. This reduction is employed wherever abstract rational methodology is applied to situations involving real people.

Commissioned by PAVED Arts and co-produced by the /Undefine organisation with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and le Conseil des arts de Montréal.

Commissioning curator: Tim Dallett