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The Flood Panels @ MAK Vienna, sound:frame
by leo on März 29, 2012

Depart – The Flood Panels
12.04-29.04.2012 @ MAK (Museum for Applied & Contemporary Arts Vienna)
sound:frame 2012
Vernissage: 12.04.2012, 19h @ MAK
.– .- -.- .
Repeat
Fast asleep and fastened by wakes
Sending signal songs
Regard
The atlas of broken waves
In
The archive of insides
(a drowning ocean)
The index of sunken things
As if rivers run through me
(away anyway)
As if flood fills me
As if birds bear messages
Calling the local observer
Enemies of eternity
Calling whatever may disappear here
Calling it a night
Beware of the sirens
video installation, 16m x 2m panorama, commissioned by sound:frame festival
made with unity3d
Δ Aurigæ
by leo on Januar 9, 2012
Delta Aurigae is an installation which deals with the periodic coalescence of opposite aggregate states, based on and structured by the rhythm of a double star system like the constellation Auriga.
A world populated by meanders and monoliths, meteors and menhirs that draws inspiration from ancient astrology which was using rock formations and natural objects to decipher the universe and measure it’s cycles.
Delta Aurigae is a hybrid between installation and performance, a stage with a life of its own. In idle mode it shows a slow and majestic flow like a glacier, where fringes blur and relations vanish.
A monolith itself, Delta Aurigae is a 4.5m high triangle with a real-time projection.
Made with VVVV & Reaktor.
o-O-orbiting the delta skelta
In merry barycenter go-rounds.
Let’s build a whole city of glass houses, only a stone’s throw away
To regard the light night sky, dive drown
Dissolving vis-à-vis-viva equators
In our monolitheral observatory.
We will, we will…
Thanks to: sound:frame, Michael Grossauer & polypod, woei, joreg & vvvv, leo & ben (Bildwerk), Pomme, Gerald Moser, Romana Kleewein
Glyph
by leo on Oktober 6, 2011
Glyph is a projection sculpture with references to ritual monuments such as obelisks or stelas. It deals with cyclic change and constantly regenerates itself. An alphabet based on fundamental geometric shapes (rectangle, circle and triangle) acts as an communication device as well as a pure aesthetic element. All texts displayed are permanently evolving and restructured based on linguistic rules.
The installation runs in realtime – the video shows a random segment recorded at schmiede 2011.
Made with processing & reaktor
supported by Subnet AiR, Schmiede, Polypod, Waldschuetz Photography , Show2Go, Holzcraft
I
glyph cleavage
like man-high menhirs
one line unbroken
heading for a fold
in the ministry of mist
a high official locks the primary gate
seals it thoroughly with wax
as he does every evening
thinking about molten rocks
and flocks therof
fold what you have at hand
if nothing
for a fold creates a separation that is an union that is a divide that is a joint
for nothing is ever so insisting as an unbridged gap
At
the atoms’ of words nightly fission
demounted scriptures
let letters
be
and build.
A Kohen’s head leaking
kowtow prostration high I rise downlift
in steadfast decline
loose faith and lost face
An arbitrary figure
crouched in covered crevices
sleeps,
calmed by the superiority of imaginary numbers
unscramble the
low tower password
tear open a portable peakhole
flood it with a froth of (moth) light
Down the lightwell, white
like loitering in literal tunnelfunnels
for it may be found not on the surface but within
not on the peak but above
not on the ground but underneath
subterranean alps
and towers piercing the earth
for every pit you dig, erect a mountain
humbly construct folds, to create in-between spaces
and aptly distortions -
then hide whole chunks of space within its pleats
and time , what else
a room for concealment, unlonged for.
a realm subject to
negotiation
Doldrums
by depart on September 25, 2010
photos by ela grieshaber & andreas waldschütz
concept, direction: depart (gregor ladenhauf, leonhard lass)
producer: schmiede / rüdiger wassibauer
production assistant & general handywork: daniela schindler
stage & lighting: jakob guggenberger (pro show)
make-up: steffi lamm
hair: cori pondorfer
photo & video documentation: andreas waldschütz & thomas rath
band: tom brüssel, christian schratt, jake, alex, florian leeb
thanks: andi hansel
Soular
by depart on April 9, 2010
juicy truth like sealing wax from a candy candle
squeezed from the lemon demon
Altar Ego
by depart on April 9, 2010
Altar Ego by Depart – mixed media installation
Thanks
Andreas Waldschütz & Thomas Rath (photography and video support), Patrick Glatthaar (hair), Steffi Lamm (makeup), Happy Lab
Kunstraum pro arte
17.09 – 9.10.2010
V_port / Museumsquartier Q21,
28.03 – 30.04.2010
Forceps of Perception
by depart on Oktober 5, 2009
Chasten dragons and
Dragoon chance
Immobilise phantoms with a hug
Like beauty’s lies in the beholder’s eyes
Premembered clippings of notion pictures
Clinging to the never mind
Little red barrette
We wonder
How the memory of now
Will turn out.
Borrowed Blooms
by depart on September 25, 2009
when night falls like a feather in a vacuum tube
covert carrier crows embark on missions,
collecting clues that stick together
like birds of borrowed plumes,
the secretions of agents.
filling ravenous caverns
I am sitting in a Room
by depart on September 25, 2008
“I Am Sitting In A Room”:
respiratoratorium room ringing resonant ruckus
performance for one performer, two loudspeakers, two microphones, on-body-projection and delicate sound balancing
duration: ca. 45 min.
original composition by Alvin Lucier (1970)
who’s talking when and where, hip or square, what moves the air ?
In the second incantation of the Reverb.On Series in 2008, DEPART and Richard Eigner devoted themselves to the piece „I Am Sitting In A Room“ by Alvin Lucier. This idiosyncratic electroacoustic composition summons a physical component of compact spaces, their inherent resonance.
A short text, which is selfreferential and recursive both on the room situation and itself, is spoken into a microphone, recorded and fed back into the room very closemouthed in a kind of acoustical mantra until the rooms own resonant frequency is overdubbing the initial signal beyond recognition.
Richard Eigner and Gregor Ladenhauf were responsible for the acoustic implementation of this concept that was first realised in 1969 by American composer Alvin Lucier (*1931).
Together with his DEPARTner Leonhard Lass, who is responsible for the visual translation of the piece, performer Gregor Ladenhauf adds to the piece as voice and screen at the same time. A speaker transforming into a projection screen of his own voice, gradually disappearing like this voice during the course of the composition.
original text:
„I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed.
What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have. ” (Lucier 1970)
“Using the ideas of Alvin Lucier’s piece “I Am Sitting In A Room”, Richard Eigner & DEPART unlocked the secret sounds of Schmiede Hallein’s fabulous spaces.”
,,Every room has its own melody, hiding there until it is made audible.”
„I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed.
What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have. ” (Lucier 1970)
Shown: September 22, 2008 at Schmiede Hallein, Salzburg, Austria
sound installation and soundboard control: Richard Eigner
video projection, programming, setdesign: Leonhard Lass
sound installation and performance: Gregor Ladenhauf
Rain Are In Clouds
by depart on Juni 12, 2008
“Rain Are In Clouds”:
wirr singing and dancing in the brain
10 track A/V album for sound and realtime 3D proce55ing
tbr 2009
where we come from there is always music in the eye
“while I think,
you make my heart sync.”
The videos on this album are a combination of eletronic sound and abstract 3D shapes generated in realtime via the software processing (www.processing.org).
The musical data is processed and transformed into shapes and movements, providing the viewer with the artists vision of what sound could look like if it was not merely air that is moving around us.
The basic idea for each of the provided videos was to create “narratives” that would, albeit rather constructed and abstract, create an organic feel and a little bit of a story.
Parts of the sound or also the musical composition are taken into account as “actors” on the visual stage. Playing and interacting with each other, they not only accompany but impersonate the sounds.
What makes DEPART special is the combination of a visual and a sound artist working together really closely. In this way, not only the visual artist is creating a world of graphics but both are trying hard to create a uniform and consistent sound/image language. The term “audiovisual sculpture” could also be applied to DEPART’s output, since the outcome is more a setting where things change on a more rhythmical and stationary scale rather than linear storytelling.
Haemlin Hoop
Pynnochyos Pyrhhusmite
Umps Unzin
UMPS UNZIN Vimeo
PYNNOCHYO’S PIRAMYDE Vimeo
HAEMLIN HOOP Vimeo
























































