Thomas Gerwin/Wolfgang Spahn

Spiel-Tisch  (Gambling Desk)
Interactive Sound Video Installation

Socket 109x70x50 cm with wooden frame, opac glas surface, beamer, webcam, 2 power-speakers, PC, 2 especially designed dices, sensors, infra red camera, USB transmission modul

Visitors face a socket with plate, a kind of gambling desk with colored geometric figures on the top which are steadily changing and moving. These video pictures are projected from the inside of the Socket on to an opac surface from behind. The whole room is filled with shimmering and rhythmically structured sound.

On the shining table top there are two hand sized dices which mark the center of one of the circulating structures each. If one takes one dice and changes its position, the sound is changing immediately. This change goes together with a change of the optical structures. One can compose with this work audiovisually by changing the positions of the dices.

Distinct sounds are dedicated to the different numbers on the dices. Especially for this piece a kind of twelve-ton-series of noises and sounds was created, referring to the possible number combinations of both six-sided dices. The nearer a dice comes to the middle of the desk, the louder its sound appears, the more close to the edge it is, the softer the sound will become. Each sound has its very own characteristics concerning attack, spectral mixture, envelope and decay. This way the musical flow always transforms and develops.

The visual structures (two different ‘Chladni figures’) are also linked to the dices. Dice A generates a circulating line, which length, color and speed is influenced by the numbers shown on the desk. Each pixel on desk keeps its visual information until the line is coming again and change the structure. The other dice B generates a circulating spiral structure which also changes refering to the change of numbers from white (number 1) to grey tones to black (number 6). Spiral B deletes the structure of dice structure A partially to. This way a highly dynamic computer animation evolves.
Sound and video create special events if both dices show the same number.

Two principally simple rules of creating structure through gambling with two dices create multiple, quite different audiovisual results - which at the same time always closely refer and belong to each other. Enjoy!

The interface is based on two hacked radio keyboards and is developed especially for this purpose. The Program is written in Lingo.

Discription:	http://wolfgang-spahn.de/Installation_08_Index.html

Video:		 http://vimeo.com/10091138

www.thomasgerwin.de -.- www.wolfgangspahn.de 

Thomas Gerwin

Thomas Gerwin (*8.2.1955) is an classically educated composer and musicologist. To improve his artistic expression, for his space sound works he includes new media, theater, film, dance and painting and came into the field of electroacustic music very early. Later he intensively worked on the development of soundscape composition. Today he composes acousmatic and concert works and creates sound and video installations. He is director of inter art project - studio for media art and artistic director of Berlin Loudspeaker Orchestra. Since 2003 he is Founding Director of "Institute for Multisensorial Arts" (IfmK). His works are performed and exhibited worldwide and has won some international prizes.
•	born 1955 in Kassel, Germany 
•	1975-78 studies in guitar and flute 
•	1978-84 studied music history, musicology and linguistics/philosophy in Berlin and Tuebingen (M.A.); compositional studies in Darmstadt, Hamburg, Köln, München, Straßbourg 
•	1980-85 founded and conducted multimedia artist group "Art Wave Ensemble" 
•	1984-87 at Landestheater Tübingen (Stately Theatre) 
•	1987-90 studied composition and electronic music in Stuttgart (Master Class Diploma) 
•	1988-90 founder and head of the multimedia festival "Tuebinger RaumKunstTage" 
•	1990-98 at Center for the Arts and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, head of the music collection and co-constructor of "International Digital Electroacoustic Music Archive" (IDEAMA) together with international partners 
•	1992-97 Vice-President of "DegeM" (German Association of Electroacoustic Music) 
•	1996-2000 Vice-President of Forum für Klanglandschaft (FKL) 
•	1998-2000 Board Member of World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) 
•	since 1996 founder and head of inter art project - studio for media art 
•	since 1998 free composer and sound artist 
•	since 2001 President of Society for the Multisensorial Arts (GfmK) 
•	since 2002 artistic director of Berlin Loudspeaker Orchestra 
•	since 2003 Founding Director of Institute for Multisensorial Arts (IfmK) 
•	since 2003 artistic director of concert series "KlangWelten" 
•	since 2005 artistic director of sound art festival "Klangkunstfest Mitte"
•	He wrote and produced music for concerts, theatre, film, exhibitions, active and interactive sound-video-installations and broadcasting: for tape, instruments, solo, chamber and ensembles; performances and exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, North and South America
•	Several awards and stipends i.e. "Karl-Sczuka-Support-Award" by German Stately Radio SWR 1999; selected for CD SONIC CIRCUITS VII by American Composers Forum 1999, Official composer for the musical creation of European Pavilon at EXPO2000 Hannover, his music was invited to several international festivals, i.e. ICMC (Tokyo, Hongkong, Patras, Göteborg, Barcelona, Belfast) and to ISEA 2002 in Nagoya, he was Artist in Residence at Artspace Sydney 2002.2007 he was awarded with Hoerspielpreis of Aademy of the Fine Arts Berlin for the music to "Ponderabilien" (text: Stephan Krass) and he conducted and composed the "Radioplay of the Year 2007" "Raoul Tranchirers Bemerkungen ueber die Stille" (text: Ror Wolf)
•	Scores at Edition Modern/Tre Media, 5 experimental film musics, several Theatre productions, sound and video installations 

Wolfgang Spahn (Austria / Germany)
Video, Installation and Graphic

Wolfgang Spahn (*26.08.1970) is a visual artist living in Berlin. His work includes Video, Projections, Slide-paintings and interactive Installations. He had studied mathematics and sociology in Regensburg and Berlin. He was founder of the Screen-printing-studio in the art house Tacheles and managed and worked for the art projects Schokoladen Mitte and Meinblau Berlin. He participates in many international exhibitions like: 2000 Biennale der jungen Kunst in Genua, 2005 Biennale in Prag, 2010 Biennale der Miniaturkunst in Belgrad) and in some media festivals like: PIXEL09 in Bergen, Internationales Klangkunstfest 2008 in Berlin, OHpen Surface 2009 in Malmö, media-scape 2010 in Zagreb.

Exhibitions (selection):
08/10	”Kunstraum Mausoleum” Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof, Berlin
01/10	“ubiquitous oscillations² or about rhythmic structures of media” General Public, Berlin
01/10	“Lichtlabor” Beuth Hochschule für Technik, Berlin
12/09	“Born Digital” Toonkammer, Utrecht, (Holland)
11/09	“PIKSEL09“ Lydgalleriet, Bergen, (Norway)
09/09	“Eis-Sprung“ Galerie Ardes, Berlin
05/09	“Licht und Schatten” Schloss Rheinsberg, Rheinsberg
05/09	“The Art of the Overhead” Malmö, Schweden
11/08	“farb_laut” Internationales Klangkunstfest, Galerie Nord, Berlin
04/08 „Between Fiction and Fact, strictly Berlin“ Galerie der Künste, Berlin
04/06	“Figures of Motion“ Schloss Plüschow, Schwerin
06/05	“International Biennale of Contemporary Art“,National Gallery, Prag, (Tschechien) 
11/05	“Klima - Wandler ...und wo sind die Myzelien” Galerie 35, Berlin
05/04	”Politische Ästhetik” Takt Kunstraum, Berlin
12/03	 “Muslim Milliqi-Prize”, The Kosovo Art Gallery, Pristina, (Kosovo)
11/03 	“Himmel und Hölle“, Galerie 35, Berlin
10/02	“Arte in Contemporanea“, Piazza Grande, Modena, (Italien)
08/02	“Reservois VI“, Wasserspeicher Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
04/02	“Hicetnunc“, Villa Manin, San Vito, (Italien)
12/01	“buy.onic“, Hot Pixel Gallery, Berlin
09/00	“Arte Visive 3”, Genua, (Italien)
07/00	“Interzone - Recycling the Futur”, Berlin
09/99	“Expressions of Youth“, Urbino, (Italien)
07/99	“Beyond Art“, Manes Gallery, Prag, (Tschechien)