Braun Tube Jazz Band by Ei Wada, , Berlin Transmediale 2011
Braun Tube Jazz Band live with Ei Wada, , Berlin Transmediale 2011, , Unter dem Motto RESPONSE:ABILITY lud die diesjährige Transmediale den jungen Japaner Ei Wada mit seiner Performance Braun Tube Jazz Band ein. Der Transmediale Text erklärt seine Arbeit folgendermaßen: One day, a spectacular vision popped into Ei Wadas mind. It was the image of abandoned electrical appliances being played as musical instruments in the streets of a city. Some time later, he accidentally plugged a sound cable into a composite video connector port and the sound was rendered as an image. Seeing this he realised that rerecording the image with a camera and outputting it as an audio signal might reproduce the original sound. With this technique as a starting point, he set up pairings of tube televisions and PCcontrolled video decks to correspond with the number of notes in a musical scale, creating a set of gamelanlike percussion instruments. Tapping the TV tubes produces primitive, cosmic electrical mus
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