“Roboterstück” by Arne Eigenfeldt, Ajay Kapur

Title:

Roboterstück

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Arne Eigenfeldt
• Ajay Kapur

Symposium:

• ISEA2013: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Venue(s):

• The University of Sydney , Sydney , Australia

Artist Statement:

This footage was recorded at the Musical Metacreation Weekend in the University of Sydney, part of the ISEA 2013 exhibition. Credit: Arne Eigenfeldt, Ajay Kapur. Recording by Xavier Ho.

Roboterstück is a tongue-in-cheek homage to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s famous total-serialist work Klavierstück XI, in which the performer glances at a sheet of music and randomly chooses to play from 15 notated fragments. In this case, agents negotiate a texture – from 16 possible combinations – based upon the following features: slow/fast; sparse/dense; loud/soft; rhythmic/arhythmic. When the same texture has appeared three times, the performance is complete. Unlike all of Eigenfeldt’s other multi-agents works, Roboterstück makes no attempt at anything human-like, either in conception, or performance, by the NotomotoN (an 18-armed robotic percussionist). Video: footage recorded at the Musical Metacreation Weekend in the University of Sydney. Recording by Xavier Ho

Video:

• Roboterstück from Xavier Ho on Vimeo.

Category:

• Sound Art