Sound<Space<Wearables
‘Sound<Space<Wearables’ displays the outcomes of the course ‘Artistic Project K’, a collaboration between TU Wien and mdw. While temporarely negletting the primacy of their sense of vision, architecture students embraced the rich multi-sensorial aspects of the spatial experience to engage in an experimental design process. By using both artistic and scientific research methods, and by addressing the urgent topic of re-connection between the human body and the physical environment, students engaged in the process of translating artistic performances into playful wearable objects. Five graphic notations created by the Greek-Austrian composer Ansestis Logothetis were translated into sound improvisations and performed using a prepared grand piano and several found objects. The recordings of the improvisations were connected to architectural space through ‘worldizing’, an audio technique where dry studio recordings are played through speakers in a real-world environment and simultaneously re-recorded, thus enriched with with genuine reverberations and ambiance. Observations of bodily movements, sound improvisations, material experiments involving haptic feedback, theoretical readings and discussion sessions became the foundations for developing the exhibited wearable objects. In addition to the physical ptototypes we present the ‘worldized’ audio recordings of the sound improvsations composed and performed by the students, and a video reel showcasing the unfolding of the semester creative process.
Students:
Eleftheria Biliani
Aikaterini Brouma
Yannick Datzer
Laura Keiblinger
Borbala-Luca Kovacs
Vit Kucerovsky
Angelina Papachristou
Sebastian Sottner
Ilektra Vasileiou
Kleopatra Vergini
Teaching staff:
Efilena Baseta
Christos Marantos
Georg Misch
Marco Palma
Eva Sommeregger
Host Institution:
Research Unit of Three-Dimensional Design and Model Making - prof C.Kern
Institute of Art and Design
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning
TU Vienna - Vienna University of Technology
Partner Institution:
Department of Composition Studies and Audioproduction - prof. A.Hubert
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Funding:
The course ‘Artistic Project K - From Space to Wearables’ takes place in the frame-
work of the artistic research project “Trans-bodied Knowledge” funded by the
Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within the Programme for Artistic Research (PEEK).