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MICHAEL VORFELD + HANS TAMMEN
SCHWEINE IM WELTALL



Michael Vorfeld and Hans Tammen’s collaborations go back to the early 90s, where they played in Jon Rose’s documenta IX orchestra in Kassel together. Today, Michael Vorfeld’s sounds are generated by different light bulbs and actuating electric devices, and the rhythmic variety of the flickering and pulsing lights is directly transformed into a comprehensive and microcosmic electro-acoustic world of sound. Using Harvestworks’ new 8-channel sound cube (with 4 speakers each situated on floor and ceiling), Hans Tammen’s Prozesshanslsoftware moves these sounds in three dimensions to create fragile and contrastive soundscapes surrounding the audience.

Michael Vorfeld and Hans Tammen’s collaborations go back to the early 90s. Today, Michael Vorfeld’s sounds are generated by different light bulbs and actuating electric devices, and the rhythmic variety of the flickering and pulsing lights is directly transformed into a comprehensive and microcosmic electro-acoustic world of sound. Using Harvestworks’ new 8-channel sound cube (with 4 speakers each situated on floor and ceiling), Hans Tammen’s Prozesshansl software moves these sounds in three dimensions to create fragile and contrastive soundscapes surrounding the audience.

The video is a stereo downmix of the 8-channel cube spatialization. Video by Carlton Bright. Recorded live at Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center, New York, November 2017. The concert was part of the Dark Circuits Festival 2017. See the page of their planetarium performance 1997 here.