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Owow

Exhibited on Friday 23

OWOW, the Omnipresent World Of Wizkids, is a young company active in the music industry with a strong focus on music, design and technology."Make music in a new and intuitive way at home, in the studio or live on stage."

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Bonkie Bonkie

Preparty at Gaslab Friday 16-10-2015

Drumming on practically everything he could get his hands on, Erwin Peltenburg aka Bonkie Bonkie, played music ever since he was about 7 years old. Starting his musical carrier, playing snaredrums and percussion instruments at a local philharmonic orcestra he learned to perform in a group en keep rhythm.

At about 15 years old, he quitted this local career, getting more and more interested in hip-hop and dance.

It was at a party in Ardennes Belgium that he rediscouvered his talend for rhythm an drumming after seeing himself on an oldschool video8 camera film. Bonkie Bonkie got influenced after that time by Rick Angel, DeeJaying at Zodiak Commune and the numerous techno parties both organised as visited. It was at the old "blokhut parties" in Valkenswaard that his artist name was formed:

In his early twenties, Bonkie Bonkie has made two large bass drums himself out of wood, with black and white cow scins on them. The sheer sound of them could be heard kilometers away when played out in the open. Bonkie Bonkie, was litterly the sound that could be heard when banging with sticks both on the drums skin as on the side...bonkie-bonkie...bonkiebonkiebonk...his name was there, and always has been ever since.

Nowadays, Bonkie Bonkie performes on electonic drums, combined with the structure and all other elements that Ableton has to offer. Prerecorded tracks, together with live percussion makes his music both rhytmic as hypnotic: Percussion Techno.

Ruistuin is an experimental audio project, aimed at making electronica. It's a project which arrose from experimenting with a modified Sk-5 and a lot of fx. Ruistuin will use an assortment of drumcomputers, synthesizers and samples to create a wall of sound.

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Build your own sound creature

Arvid Jense, Jasper Schutz

Saturday 17-10-2015 11:00-18:00

A walk-in workshop in which you will build strange beings which are making sound. Both for children and adults. In about an hour, we will use old electronics, musical instruments and toys, to create creatures generating other-worldly sounds. Subscribe here

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Build a Noise! synthesizer

ReverseLandfill

Saturday 24-10-2015 13:00-15:00

The Noise! Synthesizer is a CMOS IC based instrument. The synth has 4 squarewave oscillators that modulate each other and are mixed together,go through a clock divider and are shaped to become a kind of pseudo-triangle wave.This kit is suitable for all ages.You will learn basic electronics like soldering, identify parts, values etc. Subscribe here

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Making interactive sounds with PureData

Mark IJzerman

Tuesday 20-10-2015 11:00-13:00 and 14:00-16:00

What if programming wasn't about writing lines of code, but just connecting little blocks to make things work? Well, PureData does just that. Made to make interactive sound or visual programs, PureData allows you to tweak all parts of the code while it is running. You can easily connect it to the internet or to an Arduino and best of all, it's open-source! Join this workshop to get a fun introduction to PureData. Subscribe here

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Make a musical pencil

Roel

Saturday 24-10-2015 15:00-17:00

Imagine you could draw musical instruments on normal paper with any pencil (cheap circuit thumb-tacked on) and then play them with your finger. The Drawdio circuit-craft lets you MacGuyver your everyday objects into musical instruments: paintbrushes, macaroni, trees, grandpa, even the kitchen sink... Subscribe here

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Organum Vivum

By Aliisa Talja, Paul Seidler

Organum Vivum is an interspecies interface advantaging the characteristics of an organic material as well as exploring the possibilities of combining natural and build organisms in sound synthesis. Bacterial cellulose items, working as sensors, are translating our direct interaction with them into a soundscape controllable with touch and breath. Try yourself in their workshop

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Wave Circuit

By Arvid Jense, Marie Caye

What if we could interact with sound physically by shaping it directly. Wave Circuit is an instrument to research the relations between sound, visuals and shape.

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Knob Study

By Arvid Jense

You could see knobs as simple controllers but you could also see a bigger potential behind this simple turning button. They can look weird, react to your touch and inspire you to create music more subtely.

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Noids

By Cas Zeegers

Noids is a collection of rhythmic instruments placed throughout a room. Each instrument has its own rhythm, sound and movement. The musician is able to create different compositions by playing with the speed of the instruments. The audience is able to engage and recognize the different layers, patterns and tasks – by simply moving through space.

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Peter Kirn

At Saturday 24-10-2015 21.30-23.00

PETER KIRN is an audiovisual artist, journalist, and technologist. Classically trained in composition and piano, he now focuses on live electronic performance. He is the founder of CDM (createdigitalmusic.com), a widely-read daily site that explores creative technology, and has contributed to Macworld, Popular Science, De:Bug, Keyboard, and others. He teaches and develops open creative tools, including co-creating the open source MeeBlip synthesizer. Born in Kentucky, he is now based in Berlin.

Listen to more Peter Kirn here

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Lunchbox

By Unit unlikely

The Lunchbox is a tiny electronic musical instrument capable of providing a wide variety of sounds. All this comes in a small package that you can solder yourself. Make your own Lunchbox during their workshop!

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Amniotic Gap

At Saturday 24-10-2015 20.30-21.30

Amniotic Gap is a fresh fusion between the two existing experimental music projects FillingThe Gap and Amniotic Lymph. It is rooted in the ongoing individual explorations of sonic and musical possibilities of the combination of electroacoustic devices with traditional instruments and it is born throughout the encounter of the two. Such an encounter made new surprising explorations accessible like textures built up through superimposing layers of different sonic natures and timbre digital transformations of analogically synthesised sonorities.

Zooming closer to the elements, primal, advanced, conventional and unconventional technologies are used punctuating a wide range of diversity. There are apparent gaps between these points and those we want to fill and fall in are the gaps of interconnetion, of the unknown, of the unpredictable. The gap is the unsafe and unfamiliar spot that may exist in a poly-centered world that, accepting the prescribed interconnection, finally look for a conscious compromise.

Listen to more here, here, here and here.

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Berry Eggen

Listening to what cannot be seen; making audible what cannot be heard

At Saturday 24-10-2015 20.00-20.30

This lecture is about the fascination of scientists with sound. It is about a journey of discovery how to apply the Science of Sound to the interaction of people with their environment.

Berry is Professor at the Industrial Design department at Eindhoven University of Technology

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STEIM

Lecture at Wednesday 24-10-2015 19.30-20.00

A special presentation of sound objects for disabled people.

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Geluidsdrug Electronic Jamsession Synchronized edition

At Friday 23-10-2015

A very special edition of the electronic jamsession: Each instrument it's own speaker.

Take your instrument and join!

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