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Miha Cigler: Sonic beams / Acoustic shadows

Conversation – workshop and performance

Date: Thursday, 22nd of December, 17.00 – 20.00

Location: Ljudmila, Rimska 8, Ljubljana

Through lecture, active involvement of participants and through playing on a hands-free interface accompanied by a short performance, Miha Ciglar will try to give an in-depth presentation of his long- term project Sonic beams / Acoustic shadows. Key words: haptics, vibro-tactility, feedback, ultrasound, hands-free interface, nonlinear acoustics, parametric array.

About the project

Sonic beams/Acoustic shadows is an acoustic performance, which is part of a research project “Ultrasound Haptics Project”. The project involves an improvised composition played on a no- contact haptic interface. A special algorithm, implemented both on the hardware and software level, makes it possible to implement sound on a composition made up of standard audio parameters. A composer puts together not only the acoustic impulse but also a sensual signal, which is actually the result of concentrated sound, which occurs only in a single point of space, as a (immaterial) vibration.

http://www.ciglar.mur.at/sonicbeams.html

About the artist

Miha Ciglar (1980) is a composer and researcher in the area of audio technologies. He holds an MSc degree from the Academy of Music and the University of Technology in Graz, Austria. Since 2001, he presents his compositions for different acoustic instruments as well as electro-acoustic and interactive-dance performances and audio-visual installations at art festivals all over the world. Lately, he has focused on performance art, which he compounds with designing new concepts for musical instruments. His work is marked with the intertwinement of interaction methods and music information retrieval procedures and the development of systems for time pattern recognition (music structures, gestures, and choreographies) in real time. In 2008, Ciglar founded an interdisciplinary Institute for Sound Art Research-IRZU. He is the initiator and curator of the international festival of sound art EarZoom, which took place in May 2009, October2010 and Ocrober 2011 in the frame of IRZU.

Program Digital_Dish_@_Ljudmila – since 2003, is a series of lectures and presentations of artistic practises and experiences.