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Sound projects: One minute concept. HfK Bremen 12. 2007

My one minute piece. I took three sound from an old semi-destroyed piano, we had at home in our garage, and then attacked its cords with a piece of wood. I recorded those sound on my laptop, cleaned and normalized them to get them ready to be cut; finally, I extended and distorted them.

My goals here were to explore two core principles of composition in visual arts but in sound: zoom and symmetry. I extended one of my sources of sound from 0.05s to 30s, then equalised it and again extended up to 60s. It is my bass-drowned background. To give space to this background, I use a repetitive loop on top of it with a mechanical texture. The foreground sound is composed on complete symmetry. It starts with a high pitch sound wrapped on a sine-wave form. Then, my central piece of symmetry appears. This sound was split in several pieces that don’t dwell in a stereo space, rather they reside just on one channel either left or right and jump all time from one channel to the other; but they never sound at the same time in both.

Hope you enjoy this one-minute piece.

I recommend listening to it either with a headset or with loudspeakers as far away from each other as possible.

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September Amsterdam design, the entire city was taken by exhibitions, shows, activities under the scope: design. Fashion, product, graphic, jewellery, accessories, conceptual, etc…

We decided to spend our Saturday (29th) visiting galleries, offices and fairs of this special even. I cannot do a reference of everything we watched there but here I would like to refer to Droog design, probable one of the most interesting and famous design offices in Netherlands and to an exhibition called: Platform 21: folding

Beside its name, Droog was indeed one of the most exciting experiences, I had with design for a long time, their concepts, processes and result make me believe that still exists a hope for design, out of the mainstream and establishment. I would like to highlight and recommend here paying attention to: their actively collaboration with TU Delft on a project call Dry tech. The Knotted Chair by Marcel Wanders is one of the best known designs from the first edition of this project, their concept about our prefab life, and current state-or-the-art in technology, and finally their aesthetic, that combine some sort of irony always by the hand of experimentation. See here a video I found representative of them.

A second aspect that strongly lured me was an exhibition called: Folding, just paper and its aesthetic possibilities on fashion, exciting for it is more than a cloth, rather it is a whole installation based on “fold”. This exhibition was accompanied of interviews and videos of different researchers on this area.Finally my pics. 17 images I’m sure you might enjoy.

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Some pics from my short-trip to Amsterdam, I went there to visit my friend JR, who just recently arrived to Holland to study. Indeed I was excited about this city, its fame and history. I have to say that Amsterdam was not the first city in Netherlands I visited (Groningen), but still being probable the most famous and very interesting city in this country. We took advantage of the end of September to organise my visit during a design-week there, but I talk about in a next entry.

My first impression about Netherlands in general is the incredible architecture these people have there. It is totally different for the one that can be seen in Germany and I’ve just compared it with the Copenhagen’s style and I found it more “daring”. They allowed them selves to experiment with the form. Amsterdam has also a strong tourist atmosphere, everywhere I found rivers of people visiting places, making pictures, taking guided tours, and of course so I did.

The city says openly: “hey, do you want fun?, come here and you’ll get it”, its famous coffeeshops, gay pubs and its well known Red light district are its “attractions”. But Amsterdam offers much more than that, one can find there Museums (Rembrandt, Van Gogh, …), and an amazing amount of canals and bridges to get in love with their view. I chose for this gallery a few pictures to give you a general overview what I saw there. Hope you enjoy’em.

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Último post sobre la encantadora Copenhagen, además el primer post en mi nuevo blog ahora independiente y sobre el servidor en el cual tengo alojada pktweb.com y mi sistema de fotos. Quedaré atento a stodo sus comentarios sobre el nuevo blog.

Está vez fotos sobre diseño y esculturas: las primeras sn de una exhibición al aire libre cerca a Nyhavn, nombre: premios de diseño index, un concurso internacional que por esos días realizaba la exposición de los resultados en Copenhagen, nota: de la región solo ví proyectos de Brasil y Argentina. Las siguientes son fotografías de una exhibición permanente de esculturas en Ny Carlsberg Glyptote una mezcla de tradición griega y nórdica que encontré bien interesante, luego fotos de mi visita al centro de diseño de Copenhagen, al que no podía dejar de ir :), concentre mi atención en una exposición de Bicicletas para la región escandinava que estaban instalando el día que fui.

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Espero lo disfruten.

Un recorrido fotográfico, y un corto video con músicos callejeros en Strøget, Copenhagen

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København, Copenhagen.

Aproveché una oferta del Deutsche Bahn y decidí visitar la ciudad escandinava más grande, el viaje por tren desde Hamburg dura 5 horas y media y hay un tramo que se hace en ferry, este es entre Puttgarden-Rødby.

Llegue a un hostal bastante bueno, bonito y más o menos barato 19 euros con desayuno tipo bufé . El primer día tour en lancha por el puerto, con guía en danés, inglés y alemán -en ese orden y debo decir que las versiones de inglés y alemán a veces diferían-.

Sitios a los que fui en Copenhagen, todos a pie o en bici pública:

1. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek de entrada gratis.
2. Statens Museum for Kunst también de entrada gratis.
3. Amalienborg Palace solo por estuve por fuera.
4. Christiansborg Palace alrededor de 8 euros a entrada, y vale la pena a mi me gustó, ha sido construido 4 veces y es el castillo insigne de Copenhagen.
5. Rosenborg Castle otro castillo este pequeño, con jardines para descansar un rato.
6. Gefion fountain se pasa por allí de camino a la sirenita. Es preciosa.
7. Kastellet, también de camino a la sirenita.
8. Den lille havfrue (The Little Mermaid) la sirenita famosa.
9. Nyhavn, es la calle de los restaurantes (a los que no entre, carisimos).
10. Strøget, la principal calle peatonal de Copenhagen.
11. Botanisk Have, jadín botánico.
12. Danish Design Centre, finalmente había que ir allá, y 10 euros la entrada
13. Kunstindustrie museet el último y super recomendado los miércoles es gratis, yo fui el martes y pague como 10 euros (no me arrepiento, está buenisimo).

Tips: tomar Carlsberg “Probably the best beer in town” compradas en la tienda “7” que es 24/7, contraste con las tiendas alemanas que los cierran a las 9 y los domingos no abren. No hay call box no son permitidos por el gobierno. El mapa de ciudad es gratis en la oficina de turismo cerca de la estación central de trenes.

Aquí un tour de fotos, espero lo disfruten tanto como yo haciendolo, un abrazo:

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One small and quick exercise of animation in the Audiovisual lecture, time for the exercise 2 1/2 hours. This idea came from 2001: a space odyssey and Metropolis. Music by Richard Strauss “Also sprach Zarathustra“, my free version (distorted).

We live in a world surrounded by fonts. They are there to deliver information. We use and abuse them; we accept or reject them; we ignore, but we need them. Why not let its users know why they are there, how and by whom they were designed. The intention of this project is exactly that, give the daily users an opportunity to rediscover a font that has been following them since their birth and probably will be with them, even after they leave this world.

‘Courier’, a font that we have seen in almost all official documents, is the protagonist of this work. Once designed to look modern, progressive and attractive, now has become the font of bureaucracy. To understand the importance and popularity of this font, we need to go back to its creator: Howard G. Kettler.

It was one of my first assignments here in Bremen, in a typography lecture, the previous introduction was written by Antonio De Yta for our final report, below some photo-excerpts from our final report, which can be consulted here in pdf format.

 

Made In Germany, Aktuelle kunst aus Deutschland. An exhibition in Hannover that indeed was interesting. Finally I couldn’t go to Documenta in Kassel as my initial plan was, basically for lack of money, but anyhow I got a good time watching some pieces of modern youth art from Germany. I was there a Wednesday for it was free after 16:00, the most impressive works were some video pieces that I found honestly as good as impressive, here I just want to mention Julian Rosefeldt and Candice Breitz Works, indeed awesome. Also a very poetic (***)-work with cameras that you will see on my gallery I found it as a contradiction between a particular mechanical device and its immanent “movement” or the image those things are aimed at capturing, beside the polished wood work. Also remarkable a piece with street-picked speakers so powerful on its message, and one of my favourites was an kinetic oeuvre, I really like this movement in arts. So this is just a small review, here further information Made in Germany site.

And as usual my own photos here, in my now “famous” gallery system jejejeje just a lit bit adv, i hope all you excuse my lack of modesty jejejejeje, enjoy it.

La última entrada de mi viaje por París,
Cosas para ver en la “ciudad-museo”, a pie:

1. El Arco del triunfo en la plaza Charles de Gaulle, y parte de un eje que une el palacio de Versailles, los jardines de tullerias y la plaza de la concordia.
2. La biblioteca François-Mitterrand. (enlace en Wikipedia)
3. Un clásico es Porte Dauphine, diseño de Hector Guimard de 1899, apogeo del art nouveau.
4. Institut du Monde Arabe diseño de Jean Nouvel
5. Obelisco en la plaza de la Concordia
6. El Grand palais construido para la exposición de 1900.
7. Desde luego hay que ir hasta el Moulin Rouge.
8. Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

Aquí las fotos de esos sitios

Un corto vídeo tomado en el sagrado corazón, un poquito de ska y fanfarria para calentar una fria noche parisina de marzo .

Bueno esta es la última entrada de mi viaje por París, diez días que disfrute muchisimo y que no fueron suficientes para ver todo lo que ofrece París. Muchas gracias Manolo que me recibió y guió.Ojalá hayan disfrutado mis fotos, videos y comentarios. Muchas gracias a todo los que siguieron esta “Saga” de entradas. jejejejejeje y es que fue todo un suceso, mucha sangre latina jejejeeje.

Un abrazo y chao