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Turbulence Studies: Latent amongst the Air (Production) 8/10
Schedules
May
16 Mon - load in ( Mint, Zois ) arrival at MACA 10am, 9:30 Mint Pickup at Het Hem
17 Tue - Technical day: Structure installation ( Mint, Zois and Jesus)
18 Wed - Technical day2 : Structure installation (Jesus) + Spatial sound balancing (Mint)
19 Thr - Composition day 1 ( Mint) sound mostly
20 Fri - Composition day 2 (Mint) hopefully the room can be fully dark by end of this day
21 Sat - Composition day 3 Middle Progress check (Mint, Zois,) (Maud Maybe comes in for a quick check)
22 Sun - Composition day 4 (Mint and Zois)
23 - Composition Day 5 / overview of interview and presentation
24 - Dress Rehearsal at 5PM (Videography: Roman, Photos: Pieter, Sound: BJ + Mint Zois and Jesus, Maud)
25 - Final Tidy up & good rest/ good food (Maud comes by)
26 - Opening day 20hr performance 14hr call time for Mint
27 - Night Air
28 - Performance at 16:00 & 20:30 13hr call time for Mint
29 - Performance at 13:00 & 16:00 11hr call time for Mint
30 - Strike and out of the Venue
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Turbulence Studies: Latent amongst the Air (Music and Composition) 7/10
Sound/Music
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Turbulence Studies: Latent amongst the Air (Audio hardware and software development pt.1) 6/10
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Turbulence Studies: Latent amongst the Air (Audio hardware and software development pt.1) 5/10
Sound composition
compressed air sounds
valve sounds (re - synthesizing acoustic impulse generated by the valves)
Peak detection method with sine (peak detection 7-8) sine wave frequency envelop shape threshold
2d pixel grid to sound (Turbulence Bass_2.0.amxd) envelop length jitter pattern(the image) threshold
Resonators (M4L Device: peak detection 1-2_reson_2.0.amxd) envelop length Center frequencies preset #
5-6 rerson
envelop shape
envelop length
frequency arrays
Brownian spatialization (granular)
grain numbers
box position (xy coordinate)
Present #
Karplus Strong
Dry signal amplified none
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Turbulence Studies: Latent amongst the Air (Parts and structures, assembly) 4/10
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Turbulence Studies: Latent amongst the Air (Space, Technical setups and interactive design) 3/10
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Turbulence Studies: Latent amongst the Air (What happened + Background) 1/10
Photo by Sabine van Nistelrooij
Presented by Sonic Acts
The following text and images describe and reflect upon the research, experimentation, and presentation of Turbulence Studies: Latent amongst the Air, as a part of an ongoing series about building a practice and artistic method around the physical phenomenon of turbulence, working with the physicality of air, light, sound, and various technological devices(machines) that are used across different industries besides arts and music. Through weaving in the site-specific sounds, acoustic characteristics of the location, stories, and poems about turbulence to the building of a technical machine and a multi-sensorial system of a kind, the project follows the narrative of turbulence multi-dimensionally. As much as the phenomenon of turbulence is keenly observed, researched and studied in scientific scope and academic context, such as in physics, meteorology, engineering and etc, this practice-based study, takes an alternative approach of using it as a tool to reflect and ruminate on the indeterminate and interdependent relationship we form with our surroundings and the environment.
What happenedAs
Based on ongoing practice of Turbulence Studies, myself, Zois Loumakis, Jesus Iglesias and Sonic Acts team started working together from late 2021 for its third iteration, making prototypes, visiting different sites in and around Amsterdam area, developing bespoke software and hardware system. As a result, in may 2022, Latent amongst the Air, took place at Moving Arts Center Amsterdam(MACA) in NDSM Wharf, an old shipyard that became one of the most bustling districts for arts and culture in Amsterdam. We spent 15 consecutive days in and around the area, researching, building and installing custom developed parts, pneumatic instrument structure, lights and speakers, a system to explore and to look into the contingent hence the unpredictable parameters that condition and govern the latent patterns, interactions, and behaviors of the air that is site-specific to the project space of MACA .
Immersing ourselves in the ever-changing and constantly fluctuating landscape of the audio-visual-pneumatic weathering phenomenon of turbulence.
This production residency culminated in public presentation of the system as a multi-sensorial installation and 35min multi-channel light and sound performance sessions that were open to around 50 audience per each time.
Background
A Turbulent thought
” The seats have been rumbling for quite some time. Fist-clenched, disconcerted eyes roll around the aisles of a run-out mid-size aircraft. The longer and stronger each quake gets, the thicker the angst in the air becomes. Panic hasn’t reached anyone here yet, but every count of breathing feels different as it goes on.
Time freezes and hearts drop when gravity lets go of the bodies of mortal souls. Words cannot express the direness of a vulnerable life’s premonition before THE EVENT. The sound of rattling windows numbs out every chance of feeling safe. No one can help not to feel the questionable inkling of what’s to come. In a second of instant plunge, we land on a space of infinite fall. Closing a set of eyes to seek a moment of peace, darkness embraces and hides the chaos back into its place. Hands together upon tightened knees; with a frightened heart, one might pray for this moment to pass.
It is only the feeling of existence that’s left on this seat in the experience of the unknown and indescribable force. Trembling yet so consciously standing still, shall we dwell on being in the ever-morphing present.”
— Revealing Contingency Space (2020)
Here's to a memory of turbulence that is quite specifically located. Being on a flight to Chiangmai from Bangkok in January 2016, I took a fall that's probably the closest to a free fall for being on a flight, also the longest-lasting in-flight turbulence in my 17 years of experience in traveling altogether. The feeling, the sound, the chaotic silence that is trying to look for a peace in fear, and the smell of being in the event of turbulence are multi-sensorially engrained that day and became something I would never forget. Writing about this experience almost 7 years after the incident, I am asking: is this memory a foreshadowing saga to the forthcoming study and personal obsession about turbulence?
According to William K. George, a physicist and a professor at Imperial college of London, turbulence also a phenomenon bounded by its time and space.
“Turbulence is that state of fluid motion which is characterized by apparently random and chaotic three-dimensional vorticity…Turbulence is not really chaos, at least in the sense of the world that the dynamical systems people use, since turbulent flows are not only time-dependent but space dependent as well… Just like the solutions of non-linear dynamical systems, we believe turbulent solutions to be determined (perhaps uniquely) by their boundary and initial conditions”.
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Turbulence Studies: Latent Amongst the Air 10/10 (Reflection)
Performative installation @ MACA, NDSM, Amsterdam - MAY 26, 28, 29, 2022
The space and the surrounding sounds
An old shipyard now turned into one of the most bustling district for arts and entertainment in Amsterdam, NDSM, where MACA is located, was full of different kinds of sounds: the ferries dividing water, rain, wind, boat engines, motors, milling machines, locals partying on their boat to a loud music, tourist bachelor parties on beer bikes, little kids yelling and so on. Mundane yet interestingly mismeshing, the daily soundscape of the place could speak of the current state of NDSM as well as any history book or social studies could tell. So in between installing the project and making composition indoors in the project space at MACA, I took walks around the area with a recording device and tried to capture the sonic sceneries for a bit. Roaming around the neatly lined up container boxes where architecture and design offices are now housed, repainted graffities and street art museums, and large festival sites that was surprisingly left empty during the time of the residency, I suddenly had a nostalgia that doesn’t belong to my memory. And I wondered where this nostalgia might be from. There still was a glimpse of what this place once was like, although the cultural and social gentrification has re-presented and re-painted the area completely for the past 20 years. I realized this strangely parallels with Turbulence Studies’ artificial weather-making process as well as the attraction to the dark melancholy and bizarreness of these unreal yet such real sceneries. Both Turbulence Studies and NDSM bears a fictional yet very much real landscape and I wanted to hint this somehow. In the beginning and the ending of Latent Amongst the Air’s sound composition, a small snippets of these recordings repeat as a semi-artificial atmosphere that invites the outdoor environment that conditions the room to a congruent tone before the composition takes off to more pictorial and written out sonic journey.
“By the open air and the view to the Ij, contrasting characteristics and histories coincide in and around MACA. It calls for emergence of ingenuity and new experiences to take place”
Iris, MACA’s floor and general manager, asked for a one-liner impression of the space for PR purposes on social media after my residency and this is what I ended up handing into her. Although it was composed on a whim with much of post-deinstallation fatigue, I still think that it describes my first impression of MACA as a space and how I tried to incorporate its surroundings in “Latent amongst the Air”.
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We all come from somewhere, I suppose... Live set @ Fylkingen, Stockholm
In 2022 January, I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest composer at EMS Stockholm.
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Noise studies 2023 - Live at Sonic Threshold @ Greyspace in the Middle, The Hague - May 18th 2023
"Space is completely invaded by noise; we are completely occupied by the same noise.
The agitation is everywhere to be heard, beside the signals, beside the silence.
The silent sea is misnamed. Perhaps white noise [bruit de fond] is at the heart
[fond] of being itself. Perhaps being is not at rest, perhaps it is not in motion,
perhaps it is agitated. White noise never stops, it is limitless, continuous,
perpetual, unchangeable. It has no grounding [fond] itself, no opposite. How much noise has to be made to still the noise?" (Serres, 1983)
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Silent compressor arrived!
I’ve been waiting for this for so long...
Finally, the compressor arrived and will be testing things from tomorrow on..!
Still, I need to get a few more things.
Quick connection coupling ends and hoses.
I might need to make a terminal...
Then I will test these with Adafruit solenoid valves first.
I want motor operated valves to control the flow but I realize it’s not so easy to find these especially to work with microcontrollers.
It would be cool to work with a real engineer on this...!
We’ll see...
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Taste of Mint’s World
Hello,
long long time nooooooo posts...
In the last post which, I had posted about a year and a half ago as I was starting ACC_R creators in LAB, I was so adamantly confident that this blog will somehow come back alive with updated logs and pictures. But that was just a peachy dream. It’s really embarrassing but I have to admit, the attempt had failed greatly.
Nonetheless, the residency ACC_R was great. It kept me way too busy that after that first week, I really didn’t have time for blog posts (jk). At ACC, I had made some major progress in the Tangram project. I met really cool artists and people. Learned a lot. My friends from Copenhagen and Philadelphia joined the final showcase and we all met in Seoul to perform in Dotolim and Ally Sound. It was all and all win for all. Maybe I’ll do some backlog posts dedicated to previous projects and share that story later.
Anyhow, the news is that I am coming back to this old platform. The first catalyst that invigorated me was my coach who has asked to keep a research journal since last year. Ok, so a quick catch up: I am currently a master candidate at ArtScience Interfaculty in Royal Art Academy/Conservatoire Den Haag. How does one turn up going to grad school in the Netherlands after serious recovery from NMO and ACC residency A.I & A/V Lab (KR)? Please don’t ask. I don’t know either. But perhaps this is why they put you up with a coach every year, at least to keep your individual artistic practice on track.
So, back to the point. I am in my final year of grad school and I thought a research journal would be a cool habit to keep not just for the school thing but also for the majority of my practice and life things I do outside of school. And this very much dead blog came to my mind.
Then recently I was watching William Kentridge’s lecture where he defends the less good ideas. After watching that lecture, I asked myself ‘yeah.. so where are my less good ideas...?’. So there was my second hit on the head. “oh my blog...”
Today after a bunch of my colleague’s presentations, I am finally ready to make this commitment. It’s strange, they were all so different but somehow got me thinking ‘let the experiment begin’. They all played Nike on me. “Just Do It”.
Some terrible photos, videos, music, codes and even writings will be here. But I guess I have no more shame to lose after failing at reviving this blog multiple times. I’m not trying to solve any world’s greatest problem so I think bad progress is still somewhat better than no progress. I might think some things are alright and good but there’s certainly no promise. This place is my “tummelplatz”, aka a safe space for stupidity.
So, here we go again now as tasteofmints.world. There’s even this stupid domain now. At least for a year, I have to make use of that, ok?
I’m leaving Krakow for Unsound Festival tomorrow. Oct 10-13. It’s a vacation. Getaway trip from The Hague. Maybe I’ll share snippets of that.
And from Oct 14-18 I’m in Hasselt, Belgium for a short term residency/experimentation boot camp so to call. I will be working with two other young artists who come from completely different fields of study and research. I hope I can leave traces of the experiments we do at The School: FLORIDA (believe it or not that’s what the place is called...) in here.
Signing off of this weird world now.
Hopefully, will return soon.
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Joining ACC_R Creators In LAB 2018
Hello, It’s been a minuet.
So, here’s a fun news!
I’ll be joining ACC_R Creators in LAB this spring and will be developing one of my project called Tangram, further at Asia Cultural Center.
EXCITING!! I KNOWWWWWW!!!!
Throughout my residency at ACC_R Creators in LAB, I’ll be keeping some sort of a daily progress/log here on this blog. Pics, videos, sounds, memes whatever I find it inspiring and helpful and related to the project that day in Kor or Eng.
I used to use FB or Instagram but not only due to the recent scandal but also because of my preference of having a designated web existence for the time/space/work of me being here, I’d rather create a page here on my blog.
I’ll keep things short and simple because by no means i’m doing this for artist PR or catching attention of any sort. I commit that load of work to my website and I think that’s a good amount already.
The residency officially started today with an orientation and a tour of the staffs and facilities here, which are very very nice. And I will be staying here for about aprox 4 months.
I am all and more stoked and grateful to be back at the worx, finally walking out of the cave of a strange hiatus.
Here’s to this awesome opportunity and the rest of what’s to come!
안녕하세요.
오랜만에 포스팅 하네요. 그것도 한국어로는 또 처음인것같아요.
국립아시아문화전당 크리에이터스 인 랩 프로그램에 크리에이터로 참여하게되어 광주로 내려왔습니다.
2017년 부터 작업중이던 Tangram을 이곳에서 좀 더 집중적으로 개발해볼 예정이에요.
아무튼 오늘 오리엔테이션을 시작으로 레지던시 공식 첫날 포스팅을 합니다.
4달여간 진행될 프로젝트의 근황과 업데이트를 블로그에 올릴예정이에요. 사진, 동영상, 음원, 개그, 뭐 이렇다할 제한 없고 필터링 없이 그때 그때 간단히 순간을 표현하고 기록할수있게요.
페북도 인스타도 많이 쓰긴하지만. 사람들의 관심보다는 프로젝트를 위한 노팅과 로깅을 할수있는 웹공간이 필요하다고 느꼈기 때문에 이렇게 오랫동안 안썼던 블로그를 다시 살려봅니다. (웹사이트는 또 웹상에 존재하는 제 간판이나 다름없으니 너무 부담스러울것같아서...)
이렇게 좋은 시설과 공간에서 4달간 작업을 하게될생각을 하니 막 신나기도 하고 떨리기도하고...
오늘은 이렇게 사진으로만 설레는 맘 마무리 하고 다시 작업하러 갑니다.
안뇽-
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Mobius Room (2017)
Original Composition attributed to Pauline Oliveros
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BAKÁH Live @Mudaeruk Seoul, South Korea 01/02/16
Photo cred: Wooje Lee
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