Open Source Sampling is an ongoing project that invites
artists to re-interpret the materials gathered at the Irbene dish during
the Acoustic Space Lab symposium - for audio, video, and web-specific
projects.
The workshop held in Irbene radio telescope in Latvia, in summer 2001
had two goals. The first was to explore the possibilities of creative
realizations of a former military, and now civilian scientific device
to which artists seldom have access. The dish was used in three main
ways, sourcing sounds from the movement of the dish and the forest around
it, from satellites and communications in the atmosphere, and from the
solar system.
The second was to create a communications network of our own out of
the raw material gathered at the dish. For this purpose, the "open-source
sampling" was used, which has its origins in the scientific and computer
programming communities, where research is shared within a network for
the common advancement of the field.
All the material gathered at the dish - audio recordings, data files,
photo, texts and video, are uploaded on the server and accessible. The
Open Source Sampling Project, initiated by Derek Holzer (Amsterdam),
invited artists to reinterpret the material and to add their own thematically
related material to the mix.
Contributing artists present of the "Acoustic.Space.Set #3" programme
include:
- 01-1. Johannes Heldén - Gunnar E
- 02-1. Zina Kaye - contact track2 shiftf3
- 03-1. Claustrum - point of infinity
- 04-1. Ward Weis - Lost Connections
- 05-1. Mukul - renumber
- 06-1. Derek Holzer - snake's tail 2002
- 07-1. Francis Hunger - when I went back again
- 08-1. Kim Cascone - spaceLabMX2
- 09-1. Kevin P - spclb 122001 edit
More information on the project and other contributions:
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab/projects.html
Related Link:
Extended Radio
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab/
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