After its first successful year in collaboration with Stadtwerkstatt Linz our Tangible Music Club again participates with a special edition within the STWST84x11 format during this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. Enrique Tomás will celebrate his recent appointment as Assistant professor with a techno set at Saturday night, and Marije Baalman will present her book on “Composing Interactions” with a performance lecture on Sunday afternoon.

KIK3 is the clubbing alter ego of sound artist Enrique Tomás (ultranoise). He explores the interface between sound art, computer music, local media and human-machine interactions and creates his own instruments and code – individual constructions that essentially originate from his acoustic imagination. His uncompromising concerts challenge our active listening skills by means of extreme amplitude and frequency spectrum noise. With Material Flux 2 KIK3 returns from the fog of 2021, conjuring this time sweat through slowness. Low frequencies ripple, bodies drifting in submerged suspension. Bass coils through air thick as oil—distorted soundscapes flicker and dissolve. A spectral rhythm unfolds: distant, industrial, tactile—a rave in reverse.

Saturday September 6th+1 3am
https://newcontext.stwst.at/!stwst48x11/en/kik3

“Composing an Interaction” is a lecture-performance explaining how a modern artist might use her book in the creation process of an interactive art work, in casu quo a sock puppet. Composing an Interaction was created for the launch of the book Composing Interactions, an Artist’s Guide to Building Expressive Interactive Systems, published in 2022 by V2_ (Rotterdam). The book is a thorough guide for artists using or wishing to use sensors, electronic circuits, computation and algorithms to create engage aesthetic experiences. Marije Baalman is an artist and researcher/developer working in the field of interactive sound and light art, based in Amsterdam. She makes music and music-theatre performances, worked with dancers and has made several installations involving sound, light, data and/or wind. Topics that she addresses with her work are the nature of interaction between and entanglement of humans and technology, the influence of algorithms on society and the human experience, and environmental change.

Sunday September 7th 3pm
https://newcontext.stwst.at/!stwst48x11/en/sounding_around_sunday_afternoon