Machine is Music - Man in the Middle

 20,000 screaming gay fan of Simondon can't be wrong
                --Shameless rip of Jason Forrest imperial crash test

Introduction

Jason Forrest is right, the mass can't be wrong, right? Well, we'll see how the mass of equipments that lives around us consider our musical world by listening to theirs.

We'll make music based on secret sounds of machines. Yes, your washing machine is a singer (!) Listen to it and come with us exploring the sounds of your technical objects. We'll use a ceramic woodfired kiln to prepare concerts and test our gear (mikes, piezzos, radioelectrical receivers)

It seems pretty clear that the computer world is evolving on an organic mode. We are shaping the machine, its UI, its behavior to mimic commonly accepted behavior of physical world. Is the organic world going doing the reverse trip?

We test with MiM our ability to discern signal from noise within machine-produced sounds, and to exploit these creatively.

S1LENT F1RE Concert

The S1LENT F1RE concert invite artists to come to a silent concert. S1LENT F1RE will be the second experiment of the MiM project.

MiM uses many tools, this experiment and concert will use a kiln, archaic tool still packing high technology inside and yet considered as old. Beginning here at the basics.

The concert will be broadcast in FM and in Internet stream (mp3 & ogg).

The audio source will come from the selected artists and their treatment of the audio record of an ongoing fire (with real flames, wood cracks, ...).

Each sound artist group will be playing for a shift. The shift may last from 1 hour to 3 hours.

The experience will enable to merge sound and physical experience into a single, streamed experience available to anyone in the world for their own immersion into the sound of technologic artifacts and human actions over these.

Technology

For S1LENT F1RE, I've buried piezzos and microphones in a wood fired ceramic kiln. When firing it, we'll listen to cracks and bongs and shpofs due to the transformation, shock waves, cracks and pressure in the material that constitute the kiln.

This is the same technique that structural engineers and architects use to monitor dams and huge architectural buildings.

I made a presentation of piezzos and other sensors used for MiM and S1LENT F1RE at Dorkbot #3 in Paris with Jean-Noel Montagné. It was fun and 10+ people came to participate, solder, listen, trigger... :)

When?

Next event will be from 2nd to 8th of April.

Where?

On the internet and also in St Eloi de Gy, France, 200km south of Paris.