Felipe Ignacio Noriega and Anne Veinberg - CodeKlavier
The CodeKlavier is a system which enables a pianist to code through playing the piano as a performative experience.The CodeKlavier repurposes the traditional piano to serve as both a live coding interface and as a musical instrument. In this performance, we will present two prototypes of the system: Huygbrid and CKalculator.
With Huygbrid, we have created a hybrid version of the first two prototypes of the CodeKlavier which focus on different methods of translating the pianistic input to code. These include piano keys being individually mapped to alphanumeric characters and strings, the recognition of musical motifs and mapping these to code snippets, and the recognition of tremolo intervals for integer inputs. The framework allows for parallel coding to be done by the pianist’s two hands and in many ways is a solo duet for the pianist who is in constant interaction, interjection and mediation between coding and playing piano. As a piece, Huygbrid pays tribute to both Constantijn and Christian Huygens.
The CKalculator is the fourth prototype of the CodeKlavier and uses lambda calculus as a base for its computations which are limited to simple arithmetic operations and conditionals. This performance is done in a duo setting where the outcome of the CKalculator operations played by Anne will be used as values for the variables in Felipe’s algorithmic functions that are live-coded in the SuperCollider language.
We would like to thank the Creative Industries Fund NL and our other sponsors for making this project possible.
Felipe Ignacio Noriega and Anne Veinberg are Off<>zz, an ongoing project which explores the possibilities between live coding and acoustic keyboard performance within the classical music sphere. Off<>zz has performed around the world at both music festivals and coding conferences. Since March 2017 they have been working on a new project, the CodeKlavier, that enables the pianist to live code through playing the piano. This project was awarded a start-phase and development-phase grant from the Creative Industries Fund NL alongside private funding. The first work of the CodeKlavier, “hello world”, was the winner of the Uncaged Festival and Conlon Foundation Composition Competition.
Anne Veinberg is a versatile classical pianist encompassing repertoire of a wide range of stylistic influences. She completed her Masters at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam in 2012 and performs throughout Australia and Europe, as soloist, improviser and ensemble player. Through the docARTES program, Anne is a doctoral candidate at Leiden University. Her research focuses on the intersection and interaction of pianistic and live coding performance practices. At home she practises on a Yamaha grand piano, kindly on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation. The piano is part of the collection ‘Willem G. Vogelaar’.
Felipe Ignacio Noriega is a composer, programmer and live-coding artist born in Mexico City. He collaborates in various settings where a common subject is the incorporation of coding as a performative and aesthetic principle. Ignacio graduated Cum Laude from the Masters in composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2013. He has won various composition competitions and grants in the Netherlands including the Young Artist Fund Amsterdam 2015 and the ADE SoundLab 2016.
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay & Justin Bennett
A Nomad’s Guide to Listening, 2018
A Nomad’s Guide to Listening considers the sounds of everyday as offering an entryway into a poetic-contemplative mood in which an itinerant traveller may indulge involving post/retro-cognition. Instead of being judgmental and negotiating the navigational objects in everyday sounds by deciphering their immediate meanings, the traveller may prefer to remain detached as an elevated self and engage with the meditations and musings triggered by a nomadic mode of listening. Arguably, these poetic-contemplations and streams of thought emanate from the phenomenal world, but transcend towards the realm of mindfulness as an inward resonance of listening.
http://budhaditya.org/projects/doors-of-nothingness/a-nomads-guide-to-listening/
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a media artist, researcher, and writer, with a PhD in artistic research and sound studies from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Currently, Chattopadhyay is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut. Prior to the PhD, he has graduated from India’s national film school, specializing in sound recording, and completed a Master of Arts degree in new media and sound art at Aarhus University. Focusing on sound as his primary medium, Chattopadhyay produces works for installation and live performance broadly dealing with contemporary sociopolitical issues of climate crisis, human intervention in the environment and ecology, race and migration. Conceptually, Chattopadhyay’s work inquires about the materiality, objecthood, site, and technological mediation of sound, and addresses the aspects of subjectivity, contemplation, mindfulness, and transcendence inherent in listening. His works are published by Gruenrekorder (Germany) and Touch (UK). Chattopadhyay is a Charles Wallace scholar, Prince Claus grantee, and Falling Walls fellow, and has received several residencies and international awards. Appearing in numerous exhibitions, concerts, conferences and festivals, Chattopadhyay’s works have been exhibited, performed or presented among others in Transmediale, Berlin; ZKM Karlsruhe; TodaysArt Festival, The Hague; Donau Festival, Krems; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín; IEM, Kunstuniversität Graz; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; RE-NEW Digital Arts Festival, Copenhagen; RRS Museo Reina Sofía Radio, Madrid; Q-O2, Brussels; Sluice Screens, London; Akusmata, Helsinki; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; CTM, Berlin; Errant Bodies, Berlin; Hochschule Darmstadt; SoundFjord, London; Deutschlandradio, Berlin; Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt; Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague; CPH PIX; and Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen. Chattopadhyay has an extensive list of scholarly publication in the areas of contemporary media, cinema and sound studies in leading international peer-reviewed journals, most notably in Organised Sound, Journal of Sonic Studies, The New Soundtrack, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, SoundEffects, Ear │ Wave │ Event, Journal for Artistic Research, Communication and the Public, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Seismograf, and Leonardo Music Journal, The MIT Press.
Justin Bennett (1964, UK) is an artist working with sound and image. He studied sculpture and electronic music and much of his work combines the two aspects of sound and space.
Bennett makes work for public spaces as well as galleries, museums and concert venues.
His work with sound combines spatial recordings of environmental sound with the resonances of buildings and materials. He often uses these recordings together with spoken words to immerse the audience in a story or to subtly change their perception of a place.
Recent projects include:
"Multiplicity" residency at Overtoon, Brussels. 2017.
"Vilgiskoddeoayvinyarvi" audio walk, Kola Superdeep Borehole, Russia. 2016. for Dark Ecology.
"Blueprint" an animated film-score for live improvised music. 2015.
"Hyperforum" an installation at Maxxi museum, Rome using 3d sound from public places. 2014.
"Secret Garden" a sound work for mobile devices Amstelpark, Amsterdam. 2014
"Dream Map" an audio guide for an area of Sao Paolo, Brazil. 2013.
"Telettrofono" an audio walk on Staten Island, commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum, NYC. 2012.
Bennett often collaborates with other artists including BMB con., HC Gilje, Vermeir & Heiremans, Renate Zentschnig, and plays improvised music in various contexts.