Janus is the ancient Roman god of beginnings, endings, transitions, doorways, and time, famously depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions—one to the past, one to the future. He oversees gates, passages, and the start of new cycles, making him crucial for new year celebrations (January is named after him) and rites of passage like weddings and births, symbolizing movement between states. Romans invoked him first in rituals, viewing him as a guardian of all transitions, from daily life to war and peace.
A Janus Bunch oscillator state comprises two distinct phases. The model can describe synchronisation between internal phases and external oscillators by coupling both internally and externally. This enables the phases to exhibit fascinating and intricate movements. Some of these compositions use networks of so-called Janus Oscillators as a reservoir of dynamic patterns. These patterns are audified by using auditory-display techniques coupled to dynamical FM/RM Synthesis algorithms organized in a 2-dimensional plane (each oscillator has several arbitrary XY coordinates).
Bernd Schurer’s seventh release on domizil consists of a single piece, which has a duration of just over an hour. The work was composed with SuperCollider and a Nord Modular G1 synthesizer. It is based on recordings of a pentatonic sound and some pizzicati, played on a cello by Tom Withall. The result is a calm ocean of sound, which spreads out over larger time intervals and which is at times dynamized by a few turbulences, where the sound material folds and new, ephemeral figures appear – like paper ships in the swell of an unknown water.
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Die künstlerische Intervention von Yves Netzhammer im Neubau des EWZ-Unterwerk Oerlikon nimmt die formalen Elemente der Architektur auf und interpretiert diese auf das zu Sehende, also die Maschinen der Elektrizitätsumwandlung: Der ganze Innenraum, ausgenommen der Boden, ist mit Spiegeln ausgekleidet. Die Spiegel werden mit erzählerischen Zeichnungen und einem Raster aus Lampen erweitert. Dadurch entsteht ein gigantisches, unterirdisches Wahrnehmungslabyrinth. An der Fassade und im Innenraum sind insgesamt 8 Lautsprecher positioniert, welche einen metaphorischen Text vortragen. Dieses Sprachgebilde steuert die Leuchten und lässt dadurch im Innenraum unterschiedliche Raum- und Zeitverhältnisse erfahrbar werden.
An Extract from “Equivalency of Dissimilarity Denotation ll” by Bernd Schurer is featured on the Wire Tapper CD in the October issue of the Wire magazine. In Stores now.